ZhugeEX "Xbox One sales around 41m"

[EricHiggin]

Kerotan said:

EricHiggin said:

I often see VGChartz sales numbers used in other articles on other sites. Maybe the XB1 numbers should have been purposely under tracked, even enough so that it would be embarrassing to MS to have those numbers used and spread across the net, hopefully forcing them to offer updated more reliable data? If sites like this are over tracking XB1 sales, then MS has pretty much zero reason to publicly say otherwise. The downside of course would be that it wouldn't exactly look good on VGChartz to have numbers 'knowingly' that far off, just in the hopes of MS coughing up the legit count.

I had this thought before lol. Have their numbers at 33m or something and when news sites start reporting it they might come out and say "actually we are at 40m vgchartz is wrong". But yeah the shitstorm for vgchartz wouldn't be worth it. 

Just imagine headlines right about now pointing out that Switch is already on the verge of overtaking XB1. Hard to believe that wouldn't put a fire under MS. The optics would be so bad, and with everything MS has been doing to turn XB1 around, you'd really wonder if they wouldn't at least bend a little and tweet, we're closer to 40M than 30M btw. That wouldn't exactly be much better than what's available now though, and ya, VGC would probably feel more heat than PS did with cross play so.