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Materia-Blade on 05 March 2015
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JustBeingReal said:
SpokenTruth said:
Right. So Media Create AND Famitsu were both wrong about PS4 but right about everything else? Retailers gave both Media Create and Famitsu correct numbers for everything but somehow under reported their PS4 sales? I mean, let's be real here.

Also, Wii U was at 1,212,088 at week 51.
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41609/Japan/

As for facts, you don't have any. You're making assumptions. You're assuming Media Create and Famitsu are wrong. You're assuming they'll make adjustments. You're assuming any difference in the gap between VGC numbers and actual sales is a sizable enough proportion in Japan to give PS4 an extra 123,000 units sold. Meaning you are assuming retailers under reported over 120,000 units of 1 device yet were perfect with all others.

I said Media Create and Famitsu don't have complete information, they have partial information, but they haven't sourced every single retailer in Japan. It's not wrong to say that both of those analysis are incomplete, it's actually correct.

20.2M in sales is a fact, those numbers didn't all come from Europe and the US, Japan is responsible for a decent portion of them.

It's a fact that VG Chartz lists sales up to the 14th of Feb at 19.4M, meaning that overall VG Chartz numbers will need to be adjusted, that includes Japan sales.

I'm not assuming the retailers that Media Create and Famitsu get data from are under reporting, I'm saying that both of those sites don't have data from all retailers in the country and Sony are the most accurate source of their own sales data, they know how many consoles are sold through, I'm making no assumptions, it's a fact that adjustments will need to be made, it's what always happens when official sales figures are given by a platform holder.

"it's a fact that adjustments will need to be made, it's what always happens when official sales figures are given by a platform holder."

Not for japan numbers on vg chartz, for the reasons I already said.