VGChartz Sales Comparison Charts May 2024 Discussion Thread

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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

Uh, did you turn away from the fact that you once used Daniel Ahmad as a reliable source?

Then Are you saying that the discrepancy between shipment and sales ratios can be ignored because Daniel Ahmad is now an unreliable source?

And the global figures are probably just an expanded estimate of the UK report with the ratios unchanged.
Why not Japan or Spain?

The 5:1 ratio from Daniel Ahmad is based on his estimated shipments, while VGC figures are estimated sell-through. So having a difference in the ratio between shipped and sold doesn't mean one is wrong.

I'm not sure where you got that final point from. Yes, we take the available data to extrapolate sales in other parts of the world. But we use different data depending on where. Ie. NPD/Circana to get US estimates, which is then used alongside historical data to extrapolate to get Canada and Latin America estimates, and the Japan data and historical data is used to extrapolate to get mainland Asia estimates. The available data from the UK and Europe are used to extrapolate the rest of Europe, which isn't covered in the data we are able to get. 

There is a monthly report from GamesIndustry that provides mainland Europe sales figures that covers Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Plus they release the monthly UK report. So when it comes to Europe the places with little data includes Germany and some smaller countries.