thank you so much!your enlightening explanation !time will tell us if you are right

Lol you are really reaching thinking it's gonna sell at its current pace for the next for the next 6 years lol it's barely selling 13,000 a week in the usa alone ..let me break it down further for you ...it will have to sell 208,000 ps3 or xbox360 a week for two years ....not even ps4 is selling that many units a week at this time and ps3 is only selling 12,000 units a week in the usa at this moment do you really think it's gonna outsell the ps4 in the future come on man give it up wii sold the most consoles this generation and no one is gonna catch it and you even said it yourself if it sells at its pace right now it will still be 10,000,000 consoles short after 15 years on the market lol generation 7 is over lol 

I'm not suggesting it's wrong, I'm pointing out that speculation and trends are a part of coming to VGC forums. Many people have been called childish because they questioned the PS4 numbers and that's out of order in my opinion, especially when they've been right more than once. And why bring sales of software into a hardware argument?

True. 

If you look at other NPDs, there will be a massive adjustment to cover more ground than the small adjustment that was just made (otherwise VGC would become quite insanely out of whack).

I really hope that VGC can tweak the calculations to get more on track. As of now both PS4/XB1 tracking for 2014 have been consistently broken, to the point where the numbers aren't even useful other than to be shocked each month at the miscalculations. The tracking isn't insanely terrible for other platforms (eg : WiiU, which obviously has less total data to work with anyway), so why these two systems in particular?

XB1 price hike + no major game releases + solid Amazon data indicates strongly that April will be even worse for XB1 than March was.

PS4 momentum should be tepid during this timeframe as well, but there are no negatives to speak of either (bad PR, price hike, hardware/software failures, etc). So all the evidence is there to support the gap to maintain predictably for April (and presumably at least through E3, where Microsoft will need MEGATONS to change the picture meaningfully, as E3 doesn't translate to mass market action in 99% of cases .. it's games on the shelf that people want to buy that change things, along with price and perceived value).

If Microsoft lowers at E3 to $399, and starts hyping the hell out of their 2014 lineup, then they have a chance at winning some weeks and maybe even months in the US. The rest of the world is a lost cause with the slim possibility of a fight in the UK. If Microsoft isn't willing to bleed for it yet and wants to keep at $449/$499 through 2014, or to November 2014+, then they will have a damned hard time even in the US.

There exists a real social/networking momentum in the modern era. If you're a 360/PS3/Wii gamer, and you game in a social context (online and/or trading & playing with friends locally and in your real/virtual communities), then you will be influenced heavily by word of mouth, and if a majority of your friends have bought into PS4, you will lean that way. Ditto XB1 if you have kind of group. THIS is what Microsoft should be concerned about, as the price cut needed to happen yesterday. E3 is the latest that makes sense, fall is risking disaster.

There's no reason to take these numbers at face value.  And I don't expect the fan of any console to do so.  If there is reason for disagreement, then it should be presented.  Again, especially if its something so obvious as PS4 sales in NA.

I kinda hope PS4 sales go down, so they can throw some more stock at the countries who need it most.

I already fear that PS4 will be hopelessly outsold in the holidays because they can't save up enough stock by then. I don't expect any stock issues on WiiU or X1 side.

Yes I have come from the future... and in the future we know that NPD for March have PS4 way ahed X1 even with Titanfall+pricecut, while VGC have X1 considerably ahead... in the same future we know that there is no reason for X1 numbers to grow on the price being higher... that is now as prediction not divination.

There is a saying "Optimistic are the bad informed pessimistics"... and usually the saying is correct. Naive and dumb people live better and happier believing on a better world.

I would cut VGC some slack. They do not have that many data points and it seems those lie mostly in Xbox territory. They should listen to their data first and only second to trends. If they're just blindly adjusting their numbers to trends this whole thing becomes pointless guess work. If at some point their data speaks the truth they would be the fools by changing them due to "popular demand". I'd rather trust my own gathered data even if it seems biased than adjust them for popular beliefs.

They're still adjusting them when they gathered more data so I don't see a problem.