| ioi said: Listen, let's get straight to the point here - you feel that PS4 is currently undertracked and that is the whole motive of this thread - not to "help the site grow" or because you're a great guy trying to help or anything else! If your "analysis" showed that PS4 was being overtracked then this thread wouldn't exist! I, on the other hand, as the person responsible for producing the estimates am happy with our current PS4 figure and believe that it is an accurate representation of how many have been sold at this point (to the nearest few percent). This is based on a lot more data than you guys ever get to see and the fact that the formulae we use to estimate sales in unknown regions has already been adjusted up significantly which will apply not only to historical data but also current data. This is why your fundamental argument of "PS4 has been undertracked previously so it MUST still be being undertracked now" doesn't hold up. The fundamental thing that I can see us coming back to here is "Sony announced ____m as of ____" and the assertion that it must therefore be a fact. I have been doing this long enough that I don't take a single statement from one source as a fact - especially from a manufacturer who has every reason to make a figure look as impressive as possible - 1m is normaly 950k rounded up and so on and this is true of all manufacturers. Please be assured that we are doing all we can to ensure that our data is as accurate as possible, taking a number of factors into account, and threads like this aren't helping anybody. |
It seems that when Microsoft announed recently the sales for the 360 your policy was different. Despite the fact that they were not as clear as Sony about their numbers. If some months ago the Ps4 was undertracked by a large margin in USA by Vgchartz (territory where you have more data) How can we believe the numbers for markets like Asia/Africa/Europe. You are almost saying that Sony is lying but you don't seem to have enough data for such accusations.
Without NPD post adjustements your numbers for USA would be awful now. So what is the real situation for countries in Europe/Africa/Asia ?
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=181828
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=180004
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=186919
