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BMaker11 on 21 November 2014
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DerNebel said:
BMaker11 said:
Blood_Tears said:

And did you notice X1's UK numbers are over 1M like MS announced. lol  Classic.

Wait, seriously? In the UK - XBone and Germany - PS4 threads, mods got mad at people for making fun of the website, talking about how ioi would instaboost the XBone but not PS4, and how even with the 10M annoucement, the adjusted PS4 numbers were under 10M.

Now, they go and pull the exact same thing that people called the website out for doing?

It more likely has something to do with the X1 announcement coming from a third party source that ioi trusts because they don't have any reason to tinker with those numbers (GfK through MCV), while the PS4 announcement comes from Sony, who could potentially want to present themselves in a better light by generously rounding up or something.

Still the end result doesn't really make the site look good.

But "nearly shipped 10M" from MS is another story, right? XBone was adjusted up 900K today, while with the UK announcement, they were undertracked by 200K. Where'd the other 700K come from, with no other announcements from "3rd party sources that ioi trusts"? And there's no presenting themselves in better light by rounding up, when they said they sold over 10M. Not "nearly 10M", not close to 10M, not "we sold 10M". They specifically said "over", so that means 10.1M and up, not 9.9M, but let's call it 10 for convenience or 9.75M rounded up to 10. Yet, ~9.75M was where PS4 was placed.....3 weeks after the 10M announcement.