Kresnik said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=184649300&postcount=88 Vita LTD in 2015 CESA Games White Paper were an estimate by CESA, NOT shipment data by Sony. So it's as official as VGC numbers, at least.
Slightly more than I expected from Vita, but helps that my expectations are always through the floor. Was Feb 2015 the month of > 30k Vita and < 30k PSTV? |
However, 9.76m shipments by cesa vs 10.22m sales by vgc? Which estimate do you feel that is more close?
Also vgc had psv at 9.36m by that time, but became 10.22 due to -as proved to be- a misguided adjustement up of 1.4m (of which the 1.1m went to europe) in the end of march 2015, which a subsequent of a report of strong sales in a medium european market, which caused a misapprehension, along with pressure by a specific member and its baseless claimings which convinced ioi, it's a long story... Even though, Psv has been adjusted down in Europe -I don't remember how much-, because we had ended up with Europe being its best market, yeah better than Japan, which for obvious reasons ( no game support, no handheld console dominance advantage contrary to Japan) is not very probable, and ioi realized that, eventually. Plus that suddenly psv was selling x2 compared to last year, while there was no price drop or a major game release. Sales are still being tracked according to the new baseline after the adjustment, ergo they are inflated.
In addition lets not forget the 82.3m psp sales figure in the the interview amongst an ign journalist and a sony executive, which for some is a made up number but the article implies something else ( he was obviously asked for numbers, and why the journalist wouldn't use the last official figure but would fabricate a number instead? ) This number, compared to the 92.4m psp+psv (76.3m last known number of psp and 1.8m for psv before being combined with psp + 14.4m psp+psv shipments by mar ch 2015/ 440k psp+psv Jan+Marchm'15 from sony's data) substantiates cesa report. All things add up, why still having a denying and suspicious stance instead of a light reservation, when there are so many clues?
Lastly, you distinguish the difference between a Japanese video game market promotion organization who was established in 1996, who by the way, organizes the annual tokyo game show & Japanese game awards and a tracking sales website created by a video games enthusiast back in 2006?
