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wary-wallaroo on 01 October 2014
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ioi said:
wary-wallaroo said:

Yup, sounds about right. To this day, I still don't get why it's only PS consoles that seem to suffer from sometimes severe undertracking. Never seems to be an issue with Xbox, and hell, it's much more prone to being overtracked. I wonder if there's any truth to the whole Neogaf rumors about VGC's banning.

 

I'm sure VGC will put the X1 on top a few weeks this year, before inevitable correcting their mistakes in a few months to show that the X1 didn't actually win a single week. Hell, this week feels incredibly undertracked.

Then you clearly never read any post I make on this subject.

Playstation sales tend to be strong in markets that don't have great coverage - Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America - the best we can do in these regions is make broad estimates based on past trends, active populations and data that we collect in the more traditional regions such as the USA, Canada, Western Europe and Japan (which represents over 80% of the total global market).

It really isn't that difficult.

And that makes perfect sense, however, if tracking is bad enough in those areas that VGC is off by hundreds of thousands of units (and like 1 million+ come the next Sony update), wouldn't it make sense to just adjust numbers up (again, with actual numbers) once they come out by putting them in an "other" category? Probably far from ideal but if the tracking in a lot of regions is too tough, there'll be no way of really knowing where the extra sales are coming from.  

When I say it'll show the X1 on top and then below come adjustments, I mean it in the sense that after the last adjustments, it turned out the PS4 had won almost (or every?) single week this year, whereas before, there were a few that showed the X1 above.  Hence I believe that VGC tracking will show the X1 ahead for the week of China's release, but then it'll be fixed when we get an update. 

Of course, I don't pretend to be an expert on any of this, so maybe there's some reason why that's not possible. 

EDIT: Saw you're second post, and I get that, but if you don't know where the extra numbers are coming from, how does one update a forumla to reflect that?