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VGKing on 13 December 2011
ethomaz said:

PS3 adjusted UP.

BF week: 835,484 (+116%)

Epic.

TOTAL PS3 ADJUSTMENTS: +133,956 


Wow. Nice. I knew PS3 numbers were too low for Black Friday.



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Troll_Whisperer on 13 December 2011
ethomaz said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
I'm confused... So the 1m gap sales on the front page still don't include this week's USA and UK numbers? I thought those numbers were updated every time any number goes up.

Every time Global is UP.

Game especific sales page too... just updated after Global software UP.

Ah, I see. It used to be that every time any data was up the number on the front page was updated.

In that case yeah, the gap will end up at around 800,000 this week.



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Jexy on 13 December 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:
I'm confused... So the 1m gap sales on the front page still don't include this week's USA and UK numbers? I thought those numbers were updated every time any number goes up.


Things aren't very consistant since the "update" that was supposed to help things.  everything is being adjusted up, then down, then up again... this site is very useful, but I can see why it's not taken seriously by the rest of the gaming community for its reviews or stats.  It is unreliable.  I know they don't have the best means to get all the information they need to, and it sure would be nice if the companies released sales figures, but they don't.  Maybe in 5 years there will be accurate ways of tracking sales like the movie industry has.  For movies, we have all the theaters on file, and know the ticket prices of each place, and can get the total number of tickets sold, or the total $ amount that they made.  For video games, we don't have all of the stores on file, we don't know the prices of the games that were charged to the customer, and so we can't be accurate about the number of games sold, or how much money they made.  The only way for sure is for Microsoft, Sony, or whatever 3rd party made the game to release their numbers and for us to read them.  This website hopefully is a pioneer in making video game numbers as important as hollywood numbers.  But it will take a while.  Keep in mind that Hollywood and their numbers have been taken seriously for decades.  Video game numbers are only just starting to be considered serious (since it makes more $ than hollywood). 



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ethomaz on 13 December 2011
Jexy said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
I'm confused... So the 1m gap sales on the front page still don't include this week's USA and UK numbers? I thought those numbers were updated every time any number goes up.


Things aren't very consistant since the "update" that was supposed to help things.  everything is being adjusted up, then down, then up again... this site is very useful, but I can see why it's not taken seriously by the rest of the gaming community for its reviews or stats.  It is unreliable.  I know they don't have the best means to get all the information they need to, and it sure would be nice if the companies released sales figures, but they don't.  Maybe in 5 years there will be accurate ways of tracking sales like the movie industry has.  For movies, we have all the theaters on file, and know the ticket prices of each place, and can get the total number of tickets sold, or the total $ amount that they made.  For video games, we don't have all of the stores on file, we don't know the prices of the games that were charged to the customer, and so we can't be accurate about the number of games sold, or how much money they made.  The only way for sure is for Microsoft, Sony, or whatever 3rd party made the game to release their numbers and for us to read them.  This website hopefully is a pioneer in making video game numbers as important as hollywood numbers.  But it will take a while.  Keep in mind that Hollywood and their numbers have been taken seriously for decades.  Video game numbers are only just starting to be considered serious (since it makes more $ than hollywood).

Videogame's company tracked their sales too... just not show to public... PD for example update their sales site of all GT games every year (I guess they the only to show sales to public without PR news).



VGKing on 13 December 2011
ethomaz said:
thx1139 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Uncharted 3 adjusted up about 200,000 in the running total, but the global total remains identical when it should be around 2.4m-ish?

PS3 adjusted up and once Europe and Japan are up the YTD gap should be back to 1.1-1.2m, with two weeks left before xmas, hmmm... Did MS mention anything about being no.1 WW this year in their last NPD PR? I think it's still possible but it has become more unlikely now. Perhaps shipped numbers.

Anyway, if USA numbers were this off who knows how EMEAA numbers will be, the holiday period is crazy. So we won't know for sure until the big 3 release their quarterly numbers I think.

the voice of reason. have you considered changing your name? anyway, what are you expecting for Europe?

I am not expecting anything in particular tbh. It's just that if they can be tens of thousands of units off in their best tracked region, the rest could potentially be very off. Usually the PS3 is the most undertracked one in EMEAA, though that doesn't necessarily mean it'll also be the case this time.

And thanks guys for the replys to my question.

yea expect adjustments(even made some myself lol) (PS3 mainly) aswell. if MS is going to win this yr., then there last shot is Christmas wk., cause right nw it doesn't seem doable.  you've made sense since your first post, so why wouldn't anyone reply to you lol?

keep trainning them, cause there's more work to be done lol.

After this week the PS3 lead will be under 800K. Each week in Americas the difference between the PS3 and the 360 grows and far more than what happens elsewhere. Week of Dec 3rd the 360 gained 91K, week of Dec 10th it looks like it will gain 165K.  Last year during those same weeks the 360 gained 45K and 75K respectively.  The following two weeks last year the 360 gained 163K and 182K.  At the same rate of growth this year the 360 would gain enough to be just about tied at the end of Christmas week.  It will come down to New Years week and the special deals available for the 360 and the PS3 that week.  I fully expect MS to try and go out the year with a huge bang.

The pace of sales acceleration in the Americas is far greater. Between week after Black Friday week and Christmas week last year sales in Americas basically doubled. The rest of the world about 25% growth. This favors the 360 greatly.

Yeap... but I can't see 360 taking advantage of the 800k in two weeks.

Remeber the last week of the year PS3 sold more than 360 in the lastest years.

PS3 will be the #1 consoles this year (THE FIRST TIME IN THIS GENERATION).

You mean overall including above Wii? Because I'm sure 2009/2010 has PS3 ahead of 360.



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Christian973 on 13 December 2011

Fantastic 3DS sales. Mario Kart and the pricecut really saved the 3DS.



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Michael-5 on 13 December 2011

I noticed that both the PS3 and 360 got a 28% boost in Americas and a similar boost in UK. If 360 can hold similar gain figures to PS3 in the rest of the world, then this week it will sell 100-130k better then PS3. Not enough to eliminate the gap, but a 500k difference is looking very plausible.

Amazing numbers for Mario Kart 7 opening. Looks like if 3DS does well, it could break 20 million like Mario Kart DS did.



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M.U.G.E.N on 13 December 2011
ethomaz said:
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Indeed! an entertaining one too

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Alby_da_Wolf on 13 December 2011

Good week overall, both HW and SW, excellent for Ninty.



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kopstudent89 on 13 December 2011
Christian973 said:
Fantastic 3DS sales. Mario Kart and the pricecut really saved the 3DS.


Pricecut saved it. SM3D took it to decent levels. MK7 SKyrocketed it!