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Intrinsic on 17 August 2014
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black8jac said:

According to VGC In June and July most of the weeks PS4 sold just over WiiU and Xbone combined, except few weeks when sold just under WiiU and Xbone combined. That data has to be ajusted in favour PS4 as we know VGC shows 9.3 mln and Sony just announced 10 mln., so after adjustment sales will go even more in favour of PS4. Thats the current trends I see looking at the data. What You see is up to You.

I honestly don't know what his problem is... he is selectively looking at the "facts" he wants to see and even worse in a way that would suit his stance.

In 2014.

  • PS4: 5.5M sold (adjusted using sony's annouced 10M consoles sold, VGC has it at 4.8+M)
  • WiiU: 1.5M sold (but hell, lets adjust it up to 2M to make people like him happy, added an imaginary 500k)
  • XB1: 1.9M sold (again, lets adjust this up to 2.4M, also adding an imaginary 500k)

So WiiU + XB1 real(and adjusted totals) = 3.4M (4.4M adjusted)

So

  • PS4 is 5.5M adjusted with sony announcement compared to 4.4M for the wiiU+XB1 after adding an imaginary 1M worth of sales to them. 
  • PS4 is 5.5M to the WiiU+XB1 3.4M is using VGCs current numbers for them. (61% of total PS4 sales)
  • PS4 is 4.8M (using pre adjusted VGC current numbers) to 3.4M for wiiU+XB1

I cannot think of how anyone will look at these numbers and say/suggest that the PS4 is not selling at an overall faster rate... unless

  1. The person disputes sony's announcement and suggests its a convenient lie cause they didn't make a press release announcing that milestone instead of choosing to wait a week or so (which they did) to announce at at a global media briefing.

  2. The person has no concept of averages and how if sampling any time period of data it is always best to use an average as a baseline rather than focus on whatever natural factors (eg new game being released, price drop..etc) skew numbers in either direction.

  3. The person is delusional (used literally and not as an insult so pls to whom it may concern look up the literal definition to see how it applies to this) and his/her inclinations/preferences has completely clouded his/her  ability to reason and/or process statistical evidence and thus makes the exception the rule or simply sensationalizes everything and contorts the facts. 

  4. The person bases his/her reasoning on generally shared constants across a sample base (eg. new wanted/popular game or price drop that will boost sales of which ever benefiting platform they happen for) and somehow manages to forget that what he/she is saying can and will also apply to the other platforms eg. WiiU had MK8 and PS4 will have Destiny (or insert any other system supposed system seller there).
So yeah, but my being in this thread wasn't even about this cause I felt all this was obvious. If the PS4s YTD means that its outsold both WiiU+XB1, then that also means that its monthly avergaes will show the same thing. Not considering those generaly shared constants I mentioned. So I didn't see the need to have to point this all out to people cause obviously anyone that doesn't see that is already looking at it how they want to look at it. I really just came here to understand this boost people keep talking about in relation to the WiiU.