Where did 1up get these japanese numbers and are they reliable?

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dabaus513 on 09 January 2008

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165331

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kimbo on 09 January 2008

Dude, they are Famitsu numbers...

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leo-j on 09 January 2008

Those are famitsu numbers.

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brute on 09 January 2008

that is actually a prediction from famitsu

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Dolla Dolla on 09 January 2008

Famitsu numbers till the end of 2007.

Edit: Up to Dec. 23, 2007, actually.

From article:

First, let's check out cumulative hardware sales for the platforms in Japan. They are (as of December 23, 2007) as follows:

DS - 20,916,560 units
PSP - 7,377,329 units
Wii - 4,456,959 units
PS3 - 1,623,671 units
Xbox 360 - 539,143 units

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dabaus513 on 09 January 2008

How does vg chartz track japanese numbers? Do they compare famitsu and media crate and average out the mean or something like that?

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lenardo on 09 January 2008

vg has own sources.

usually they fall in line comparitive to both media create and famitsu-- sometimes not (like last week)

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