20th September Week (PS4 passes 11m on VGC)

[Intrinsic]

GribbleGrunger said:

alabtrosMyster said:
I don't get the numbers they come up on the chart at the top of the main page, the PS4 is outselling the XB1 on a weekly basis by 80k to 300k units... yet when it gets updated both come up by the same (or the XB1 has a bigger number added to its total).

I am not denying the complexity of the process, just pointing out how things do not seem to add up.

I've been seeing that too but waited a while to say anything because I know rounding up or rounding down can skew things slightly on the main page. I've waited long enough now to agree with you.

its how they actually round up or down ther numbers that causes the problem.

if the PS4 (or any console) is at 5.1M on the chart, their exact total could be 5.06M. If the following week they sell 80k consoles, the number on teh chart wil still remain at 5.1M even though the real number is now 5.14M. When ever the real numbers cross the next .05 marker, the chart number increases by 1. Makes for some rather starnge charting.