Alkibiádēs said:
You're on a site that tracks sales, of course such a huge error is a big deal. And yes, after years of snarky comments by some Sony fans it is hilarious that the Vita is the one that is overtracked a lot. |
The problem is that, vgc adjust it hugely up in april, otherwise the overtracking wasn't a huge error, that breaks my head!
The adjustment was misguided, but I justified why the responsible for tracking, did it, pure misapprehension and strong pressure with irrational/baseless claimings by a specific member!
I explain it here:
Vgc has psv at 10.3 as of March 28th, 10.35m as of April 4th, and then ioi adjusts it up by 1.3m (the 1m went in europe), to bring it to 11.6m as of the 11th April after the news that psv has shipped 600k units in spain, ioi surmised that he hadn't tracked that, the LTD before the adjustment in europe was 3m, The huge european markets, the uk, France, and Germany were summing up 1.2m, leaving 1.8m for the rest of Europe, acceptable for a bad perfoming platform in general, we can believe that the 600k sales of Spain was there or the most of it, even if it was tracked inadvertently!
Ioi after that fact, pressured and influenced by a specific member who was trying for a long time to persuade him to adjust it up, by insisting on that psv is a big seller to fairly smaller european markets such as chezh republic, belgium e.t.c (well it is in spain, something that dazzled many people because is more by 70k by the sales in the uk, by 100k than sales in france, and by 300k than sales in Germany, from what vgc demonstrates, a tracking firm though proved right vgc for the uk/france numbers!
In spite of Spain being a way smaller market than uk/france, psv manages to be surprisingly robust there, a sign that sony's playstation big brand strength (which in spain must be very even stronger) applies to the handheld in spain's market, due to these developments ioi considered that he undertracked it in other secondary european markets too.) That reared a suspicious result, to wit, Europe, being psv best selling territory, instead of Japan, where it has game support+ the merit of handheld market dominance, while in the old continental, the absolute nothing....
I don't really blame that member,because psv was looking quite undertracked in the beggining! Eventually,ioi succumbed and adjusted it up heavily,while he was tracking it almost perfectly or moderately overtracking it...
New op:
http://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/20150210trib562875d47/jeux-video-retour-a-la-croissance-pour-un-marche-francais-tire-par-les-consoles.html Yeah, psv has sold 446k in France by the end of 2014 and 600k as of June 2015 in spain, so it has truly sold more in spain than in france despite the market size difference , so that fact wasn't meaning that it was undertracked in other european countries... Vgc has it at 468k at france by that time interval, good tracking!
Also global sales from it's launch till January 2013 were at 4m vs 4.4m of vgc!
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/04/playstation-2-manufacture-ends-years It's overtracked by 400k since 2013!
An error, that can't be considered huge!
Usually the errors aren't huge, and there are many cases of succesful/perfect or approximate tracking... But that kind of overtracking can't be ignored!
