PS4 will sell more in its first year than PS3 in its peak year

[binary solo]

Troll_Whisperer said:

binary soo said:

http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2011/Global/

Something a bit fishy about the tools graph and the yearly table being off by 400K. I also notice the 360 is higher by over 100K on the tools graph. Making the gap for 2011 according to the graph just 300-some K whereas the gap according to this table is 900K.

What to believe when the site is contradicting itself. Does the graph represent adjustments, but the yearly table reflect a static picture as of 1 jan 2012? or is it the other way around?

If you go to the weekly charts for the end of 2011 and 2010 and substract the numbers manually, you get 14,313,808. So I'd say that's the "correct" figure.

So that suggests the yearly sales charts never get adjusted, which is disappointing as this means there is redundant information here, including all the software numbers. E.g. for 2011 you can see that CoD:MW3 has 12.5 and 10.3 million on the yearly chart. But using the game comparison tool it shows 11.5M and 9.6M. The game pages match the game comparison graphs.

Oh well, that makes the yearly sales chart completely useless as a quick and easy reference if there are adjustments made. They might as well remove them if they are not kept up to date.