StarDoor said:
Yeah, I've been compiling the data for other regions all day. I'm almost finished with the global chart. Unfortunately, there are two major problems with doing Japan and Europe: Nintendo and Sony don't separate their shipment data using the same regions. Instead of "Europe," they have "Other" and "PAL regions" respectively. For Nintendo, this includes everywhere that isn't Japan or the Americas. For Sony, this includes Europe, Oceania, Africa, and South America. On top of that, Sony doesn't actually have a separate shipment tally for Japan, only all of Asia. So it would be Sony's Asia versus Nintendo's Japan. Secondly, Sony stopped separating their sales by region in 2007, so all region-specific shipments afterward have to be imprecise estimates based on sell-through from VGChartz. This works well enough in the case of North American and Global shipments, but we run into problems everywhere else because of the whole "Other VS PAL" and "Japan VS Asia" issue. Since VGChartz doesn't have those breakdowns anywhere, I don't know what ratios to use in cases like "How much does Europe account for Nintendo's Other shipments?" or "How much does Japan account for Sony's Asian shipments?" I guess I can just compare lifetime shipments to VGChartz lifetime sales, but that gets iffy with consoles that are still selling, since there are still consoles on shelves and the regional ratios could still change. |
Here's an idea that solves all your data problems... worldwide sales! I think someone suggested that already.
