| Carl2291 said: Same goes for platform totals. However, when the data provided (like here, for example) is within 5% of the actual WW numbers, it isnt exactly fair to just dismiss everything that Brett does. Take a read of this, incase you havent done before - Why it is so easy to blame VGChartz |
I don't quite buy this "only 5% of explanation", because Sony has given us sold through numbers before (last time being from early march, when they gave us the 20.2 million sold through figure). Any margin of error should be calculated from the last official numbers, so this error is more like 13% (assuming a 1.3 million undertrack), not 5%.
Now you may say that 13% is honestly a respectable margin, and I'd be inclined to believe you if we hadn't gotten any other data, but when we get NPD leaks, Media Create numbers and of course shipment numbers each quarter, I'm certain that it would be possible without too much effort to reduce that margin of error down to an actual 5%, which would be really good. I mean, this undertrack shouldn't come as a surprise after the last shipment numbers we got. I agree with the rest you said though, and I massively appreciate what ioi and Machina does with the numbers, but again, like I said, I think this particular overtrack was a rather obvious one, and could have been avoided easily.
