joeorc said:
Hyruken said:
joeorc said:
Hyruken said:
But as i said above you can't really use numbers from these places as you would have to go through individually and remove places where 360 is not released. Like for example China, the most populated planet on earth. Many Middle Eastern countries. In reality if you went through each of those countries and removed the ones without a 360 release the PS2 total would be a lot lower.
Either way it does not matter, 360 has outsold PS2 in americas,europe and japan since it's release.
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that's like saying the sales there do not count!, which is not the case this is a site that has "WORLD WIDE" sales total's does it not?
so just because the XBOX360 is not released into those areas is not the fault of the other countries and their sales..
say for instance as an example: If the PS3 or the Wii was not released in the US market and the xbox360 was would you than exclude the US because the Wii and the PS3 was not released there...?
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Yes it does count.....
However as shown if you break down each region based on when the 360 was actually released in each region he is wrong. In terms of collecting data you can't use numbers that are prior to 360's actual release as that would make the numbers false. That is what he has done.
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how is it false, he is showing the product sales in a per region basis just as you did..it would be great to pick an choose what data to ignore and which to choose , but you cannot if you want to be unbias. look his data is when the system's sales were from the start of when the xbox360 was released..not when the PS2 was released because the PS2 would be way more ahead.
just because a product is not in a region and another is does not mean you get to exclude those sales in the totals. that's like saying I release a product and you than release one at the same time but i put it in more places than you . but you want to exclude those places sales?
look just because the xbox360 sold more in some region's than other does not take away from the fact the PS2 out sold the xbox360 and the PS3 world wide.
the Xbox360 does not do as well in Japan as the other two, yet that does not mean we exclude the sales number's for total system's sold.
for as good of the sales the xbox360 and the PS3 has had the PS2 just sold more because (a) there are areas that are just now getting the PS2 for the very first time..it's a new launched system there! It's like they just got a new system released there even though the rest of the world has had them for many year's. (b) it's priced very Low, with a ton of existing software to buy.
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If you were doing that for a professional comparison you would not be able to use numbers to compare in that way.
That is like comparing say a product with a billion people who can buy it against one with only a few hundred thousand who can buy it. If a product is limited to only specific areas how can you compare it to one that is available everywhere. Is it really an achivement for the one to be available everywhere to beat one that isn't?
Ok let me put this in simpler terms for you.
If you are comparing the 360 sales with PS2 sales then what are the factors for comparing. If you are comparing worldwide sales of both consoles from the momment the 360 was released in 1 country then his data is correct. But by that logic it is not much of a comparison because as pointed out your comparing 1 console available to every country against 1 that is available in only 1 country. What is more likely to have higher sales?
The only way you can compare the two in a fair way is to compare sales of the two consoles from the point 360 released in each individual region and work each regions totals out.
Take europe for example. You can only compare PS2 numbers to the 360 numbers AFTER the 360 has released there. Because otherwise your comparing PS2 data against no 360 data. Again that would be false data.
The same goes for every country that has had a 360 release. You can only compare PS2 data AFTER the 360 has released there.
That was the point of his post, to say PS2 has outsold 360 since the 360 has been released. Which is correct. Because if you compare it from the day it was released in americas your have his numbers. But those numbers are comparing one product available in all regions to one only available in one. Not much of a comparison is it.
To get the true figures you have to look at each region individually and base the numbers in those places AFTER the 360 has released there. Because your way of doing it as i have explained to you is comparing say PS2 numbers in regions where the 360 had yet to even be released yet. If your going to for example collect data from India and base the comparison on how the PS2 has sold since 360 has launched. You would only use data from after the 360's launch there. You can't include a whole years worth of PS2 sales prior to 360 even being released. That is false data.
