360 Numbers don't add up!

[Monty]

Jack said: There are no numbers for Mexico and the NPD Canada numbers are no where to be found . They do track Canada video game market it says on their site where are the numbers are no one knows. I don't think vgcharts are off by 400,000 considering no data for NPD have been given even the estimate that people say are from them they are not claiming them. http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/01/03/npd-clarifies-december-sales-info/ This site made an educated guess at what the numbers should be the numbers will be out on the 11th so any discussion about how using NPD numbers for December are useless. I think their guess is within 5% of the real total not the 30% (9.5 million)that you keep pushing. The Japan numbers are off because of the sale on week one of December they saw a jump to 34,000 but they do need to correct it back down to the only 17,000 per week average. I don't see how them overestimating adds to your argument that they are underestimating the total it would seem the other way maybe MS only sold 7 million WW. Using Japan as an example of how this site overestimates things.

The 4.5 million sold in 2006 was from NPD, however, and not the same as the CNBC story you are citing. Added to the 610K figure from NPD for 2005, that would equal 5.1 million. I doubt it'll change much from those estimates, especially considering the 4.5 number that was from NPD. But, we'll have to wait and see! The funny thing is that most people here are saying to me "400k" isn't anything. However, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if they find out *I* was off by 400k, they'll let me have it and it suddenly won't be "close". I almost hope I'm really, really wrong just to see if they jump the fence on that issue.