NPD Sales.

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shams said:
@all: just going to add one thing to this "debate":

VG does NOT track NPD - it is NOT the point of our figures. Saying they are "wrong" because they do not match NPD figures means that you don't understand how this site works.

Unless NPD ever releases figures for "Americas" in general, there can be no direct comparison anyway.

I find it perfectly reasonable that up to 700k Wii units may have been sold in the South Americas - or places not covered/tracked by NPD. This is around 5% of the total sales for the Americas in general.

Same applies to the 360 (500k), which has been out a lot longer than the other consoles.

And as for the PS3 - given its price, and that it has sold around 1/3rd the quantity that the other two consoles have sold (in NA), the 50k doesn't surprise me. It might be untracked by a small margin, but it wouldn't be more than 100k-200k (which is the same percentage as the 700k for the Wii).

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Now lets be nice to each other, otherwise the ban hammer is coming out.

You said it all. Nice post. Irrefutiable.