tak13 said:
Shipment was 13.56m... Wii u is overtracked in NA/USA by 300k, which is known by a leak in npd june or july, I have informed ioi via Machina!
No comment for xbox! ( Maybe rest of Europe sales are questionable )
PS4 is truly overtracked but if vgc adjusts it down, then ps4 may end up be being undertrackedand and 400k is within the margin of error! The next official sales figures from sony ps4, could be 57.1 and vgc's same or close to that, while it was overtracked by 400k in a previous time interval. Now you get what I mean.
3DS is almost spot on! ( From Nintendo's ir site )
A bit undertracked in France ( by 50k ), even though I have to confess that I find weird that vgc has 3DS sales in Germany fairly below the UK's! Nintendo perfoms far better in Germany than in the UK and vgc agrees with that, just see Pokemon S/M sales between these to countries, 362k difference, the numbers are near to the sales in France thoug, which the best european market for Nintendo and one of the best markets for Nintendo in general. However, the hardware sales between FR/GE have a differece of 1.4m, it's not improbable to be huge ( given France's love for Nintendo ) but not so much! Perhaps, 3DS is overtracked in the rest of Europe ( exluding spain/italy ) and equally undertracked in Germany!
PSV... It's an issue that I exposed twice ! This is time, ioi will have to remove that 1m... Wherefore, CESA new shipments estimation of psv was 12.46 as of 2015 ( 12.9m sold for vgc ) and he noted that if the next update ( even if its unofficial ) shows a huge discrepancy again, he will adjust it down! Although, as you say the problem isn't just that added 1m.
Time for some history!
PSV had shipped 1.8m and PSP 76.3m as of 2012! Then sony started to aggregate their shipments, they shipped 14.3m psp+psv till the first quarter of 2015, after that they beginned hiding psv shipments!
1.8m+76.3m= 78.1+14.4=92.5m! In a interview with a sony executive, it was mentioned that psp has sold 82.3m, many doubted that this came from the mouth of the sony executive and they deemed as a fabrication from the journalist.
92.5m-82.3m=10.2m...
Later we had an estimation of shipments by cesa, that were 9.76m as of 2014 ( VGC had psv at 9.3m then ) . Sony shipped 450k psv+psp in the FY14 Q4, psp was basically discontinued from the most markets as of December 2014. 9.76m+450= 10.21m!
Which implies, that truly sony executive revealed PSP LT sales, since the above two add up and substantiate each other, also it proves the legitimacy of cesa's estimation! Anywise, cesa is not a random company, they hold Tokyo game show and Japan video game awards! They must have insiders in sony.
The annoying thing, is that vgc was tracking it rightly till 2014, it seems! News about psv having a lot higher sales in Spain, than France, UK, GE, made ioi to make the misguided vast adjustment up in April 2015, because he mistakenly thought that psv does exceptionally in every less bigger european market and the small ones.
A vgc member with his unfounded assumptions contributed to that too! I won't say the name here!
P.s Sony was combining psp and psv shipments, psp someday inevitably died... That's why sony changed their diclosure policy!
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