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Forums - Sales - Blizzard claims 3.5 millions D2 sales on day one, VGchartz 1.8 mill on the week..

Weekly D3 sales are 6.3 millions units according to Blizzard again...

 

So VGChartz is 350% off...

I think this clearly demonstrate that the site shoudn't try to give PC software sales because the number have no relations with reality...

PS : the Blizzard number do not include the 1.2 millions copies they gave to Wow users that signed a 1 year subscription...

Here is the Blizzard press release :

http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=676112



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

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While I'm not the most vocal advocate of this site's numbers, I believe it only claims to track retail copies, no? The linked press report doesn't give us any breakdown of retail vs. digital.

Or is that your point?



I'll go with Vg on this one, even if these numbers make them broken and irrelevant. So fucking tired of all the bullshit these egomaniac publishing houses force upon us.



 

VGChartz does not track digital sales. It's a huge weakness, but it explains the massive difference.



Makes you wonder if VGChartz can survive next gen as gaming becomes more digitalized.



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Until we know how many units exactly of those were DD I won't blame vgc for the difference.



pezus said:
Rath said:
VGChartz does not track digital sales. It's a huge weakness, but it explains the massive difference.

Actually, not completely. No way is the retail PC market only ~30% of the total.

It's also a Blizzard press release.... so the whole sales vs. shipment thing also likely applies.



durp durp. This is why the rest of the industry doesn't take vgchartz seriously.



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Jexy said:
durp durp. This is why the rest of the industry doesn't take vgchartz seriously.


I dont really think that's true.  yea vgchartz isn't 100% accurate but neither is NPD. vgchartz is fine to me



Pjams said:
I'll go with Vg on this one, even if these numbers make them broken and irrelevant. So fucking tired of all the bullshit these egomaniac publishing houses force upon us.


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