Worldwide Up. Weekly Hardware Chart 08th October 2011.

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binary solo on 14 October 2011

cyberninja45 said:

RolStoppable said:

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Well Nintendo posted the press release on its offical website today: http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/Vo4KiV1aMO9nLxLhkezo6mNOsTWPRGLK

So the press release wasnt BS after all LOL.

So now is the mystery of where the heck VG get its U.S. numbers from. Unless Americas means all of north, south and central Americas or something.

There's a methodology page somewhere on this website, but in short:

VGC collects data from a number of retailers and then estimates numbers for the whole region. Most of the time the numbers they arrive at are fine, but there can be some notable differences from time to time, especially shortly after price cuts.

Estimates? 87,254 sound like an exact number to me.

Anyways ~140,000 overtracking is unacceptable. its not even the same month as the pricecut. Is that some kind of record for a month or somethin?

Well japanese numbers is the same as media creates so I guess japan is reliable.

Well when you get sales data coming from retailers that are exact numbers and you plug them in to your estimation formula it spits out a number like 87,254. So that's the number you report to the web. You don't then go and arbitrarliy round the number to the nearest 100 or 1000 units, you report the number your system calculates.

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spurgeonryan said:

Ssliasil said:
PS3...b ack on top of the console race $$

It is interesting how 360 dominates in the west, but then in Japan the PS3 catches up in sales over there. It seems it all depends on whether the 360 or the PS3 is more popular each week in EMEAA that decides who is on top for the week.

360 dominating in the West? LOL! Did you see the NPD numbers? PS3 is doing much much better in America than VGChartz numbers, the home turf of 360. PS3 is already dominating in EMEA and Asia.

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ethomaz on 16 October 2011

Waiting adjustments (and me being annoying while this) .

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ethomaz on 16 October 2011

PRICE CUT + DLC = WEIRD = -20% (DOWN)???

>40

Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
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14,479 (-20%)

6,554,635

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Notorius.A.i.G on 16 October 2011

Can't wait to see the hardware / software rises for the holiday seasons.

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Notorius.A.i.G on 16 October 2011

ethomaz said:

PRICE CUT + DLC = WEIRD = -20% (DOWN)???

>40

Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
Sony Computer Entertainment, Racer

46

14,479 (-20%)

6,554,635

I believe the NA pricecut will be shown in next weeks data.

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Notorius.A.i.G said:

ethomaz said:

PRICE CUT + DLC = WEIRD = -20% (DOWN)???

>40

Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
Sony Computer Entertainment, Racer

46

14,479 (-20%)

6,554,635

I believe the NA pricecut will be shown in next weeks data.

This would explain the drop. About the official PD data, if the next they'll release won't be the end of June 2011 ones, but the end of December 2011 ones, they'll be useful only to adjust the totals, but with so many factors affecting sales since the previous ones, they won't give enough informations to correctly adjust the weekly ones beyond a simple proportional adjustment.

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