VGChartz Sales Comparison Charts May 2024 Discussion Thread

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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

Was February also 5 weeks?
A quarter is a quarter and three months is three months. Daniel did not mean by the number of weeks.

Also, going down from an average of 1.5 million to 825,000 is a 45 percent decrease, far from a 25 percent decrease. So it is a contradiction.
And Xbox dropped 45 percent from March to April in VGC?
Probably not.

And of course the UK is not the same as global.

In any case, it will be interesting to see how VGC corrects this later.

Again the 4.5 million figure is shipped and not sold. We have PS5 at 1.41M sold in March (282K/week on average), which dropped to 825K in April (206K/week on average). That is a 42% drop when looking at the overall sales, while the weekly average dropped 27%.

For Xbox we had sales of 351K in March (70K/week on average), which dropped to 208K in April (52K/week on average). That is a 41% drop when looking at the overall sales, while the weekly average dropped 26%.

The drops for both consoles are down by pretty much the same percent from March to April.

We take the available data and extrapolate to get our worldwide estimates. It should mean the estimates are fairly close in North America, Europe, and Japan. But as always we do make adjustments when more data becomes available.