360 Numbers don't add up!

[Monty]

Wii_gamer said: 5.38m as of Sunday, that includes the first week in Jan. Total sales in Canada as of November were under 350k compared to 3.45m for USA. Sorry if I wasn't clear on the figures. Total sales in Canada as of December are thought to be around ~500k, with ~4.7m in the USA. Another small issue with some of your assumptions; why do you think a console will sell as well between 25th Dec and 31st even though some days are not retail days anyway and the big rush for christmas is now over? In the week before christmas 400,000 Xbox360s were sold, but you can't just extrapolate this up for the whole month, things built up to that and will die down again after christmas. Also estimates for December cover a huge range, the 2 million for Nov + Dec upto 25th is definitely the highest, most are a little more conservative including ours.

I don't believe that the 360 sold as well from Dec 26th - Dec 31st, which is why I didn't cite it at the 250k that would have been the straight "average" (43k times 6 days). I instead said 200k... 50k less than the average. And, again... it was a rough estimate to try to reach a total. It's a pretty pointless disucssion as it was likely VERY close, and wasn't part of a major point... If you believe the total to be 150k (or whatever you believe) it wouldn't make a difference in the ultimate point. Also, to revisit the Canada/Mexico argument, you called my 800k firgure "absurd" and that it "defies all locgic" a minute ago. You added that Canada was "not" above 350k by itself. Now you're trying to tell me that was a figure that was out of date by 2 months, and the total for Canada alone is about 500k? So, if Mexico even sold a mere 200-300k in 14 months, then my figure doesn't seem so "absurd" anymore, does it? Was this one of those other times that I was "proven wrong" as you keep saying? I've yet to find where I've been proven wrong on any statistic. But, now that I've proven you wrong, I'm sure you'll try to say you were "mistaken"?