360 Numbers don't add up!

[Monty]

catofellow said: 1.) Monty and others who believe that the 360 sales should be higher; do you think that vgcharts should guess, with no sources what the actual sales are? You keep referring to NPD #'s which haven't been released yet to get your U.S. totals. Obviously the XBOX 360's sales should be higher as we see the same total we saw yesterday for all three consoles. I would rather have a website that is updated as real information (provided by professional analysts) is released than one that just guesses. 2.) You made many comments to the effect that this site is biased toward Wii or against 360. However to prove this site is biased you would have to show that the XBOX 360 sales are too low and its competitors aren't. You can't just state that the XBOX 360 totals are too low as evidence of bias, common sense alone proves as much since the site is not continuously updated. Here's an excercise, try to prove that the Wii or PS3 sales are tabulated using a different methodology than the XBOX 360 and I will believe the site is biased. Otherwise all 3 console totals are underreported and are updated when NPD/Famitsu/Mediacreate issue press releases.

1) Do I think vgcharts should guess? That's an odd question considering THEY DO GUESS. Anybody that provides a WW tally of sold units to a consumer is guessing. Nobody knows the correct figure. What I would like to see is a logical guess. I do not feel that vgcharts is remotely close when it comes to the 360 numbers. 2) You have a fair point on #2. I do not have anything to back that up, and will happily withdrawl my statement that vgcharts is biased toward Nintendo. To be fair, I just regurgitated that from something I read on another site that made the allegation that the site owner was a member of another forum and favored Nintendo prior to running this site... it was 3rd hand information, I didn't research it any further, and can not vouge for its validity.