Weekly hardware 11 October 2014

[mornelithe]

Xevross said:

mornelithe said:

There's also no proof that it isn't, the only thing we do know is that it's routinely undertracked on VGC, and that even when Sony announces over 10m sold to customer, that's not enough for the site to update figures.  Now, I understand the reasoning behind IoI holding off (because he didn't know where to apply the numbers), but that doesn't make VGC's figures any more accurate.

He recently said that he was happy with his numbers for August 9th and feels he doesn't need to adjust them up. Not sure where I read that. I'm not saying VGC isn't under tracking and I wouldn't be surprised at all if PS4 is under tracked by more. For once, however, I am not expecting it to be more under.

IoI being happy with the numbers, doesn't mean they're accurate :)  Not sure why a site that tracks HW/SW sales wouldn't feel the need to adjust numbers that the world knows are low.  I could see him being forced to accept them, without receiving more itemized sales for him to update specific regions with, though.  But, I'd imagine he'd love to be able to shut everyone up about over/undertracked.  Personally, I'm just curious about the differences in the numbers IoI gets from each company, how they're itemized etc...  If the format that they're received in, is so much different, Sony (or whoever) might want to fix how they report PS4 sales.