Weekly hardware 7 March 2015

[baloofarsan]

Ryng_Tolu said:

Platform	N. America	Europe	Japan	Global
	69,544	51,781	33,363	195,306
	61,813	65,964	31,432	172,390
	63,790	23,082	454	98,943
	10,006	14,979	7,159	43,675
	17,976	8,990	6,702	36,181
	4,329	4,227	19,427	35,456
	13,799	5,912	23	23,096
	1,355	810	26	2,359

I have never seen an explanation for the way global numbers are calculated.

For PS4: 69,544 (NA) + 51,781(EU) + 33,363(JP) =  154,688 while the "Global" number = 195,306.

This makes the factor to calculate the global number = 1.26. (Global sales are 26% of NA+EU+JP).

For 3DS this factor is = 1.08

For XO1 the factor  is = 1.13

For PS3 the factor is =  1.35

For Wii U the factor is = 1.07

For th PS Vita the factor is = 1.26

For the X360 the factor is = 1.17

For the Wii the factor is = 1.07

I can understand that Sony sells better (than MS & Nitendo) on markets other than NA+EU+JP, but I would expect the Wii to sell more than the Wii U on these markets. 

Anyone seen an explanation to this?