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DrDoomz on 13 August 2014
vivster said:

It's not as easy as you think it is. It's not like adjusting up a single number and be done with it.

They need to check where they could've gone wrong and where they have to add additional units. Not just for one week but all weeks since the last reliable numbers. And not just 1 chart but across all regions. The numbers do have to add up you know?

Hm. One would think that they'd keep their charts on a separate algorithm as their computations (linked but not on the same code). Seems a bit.... Inefficient. But I guess that's me.



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FentonCrackshell on 13 August 2014

I'm not mad at VGChartz. No one can expect them to be exact. It's quite obvious that Sony's numbers would differ from theirs.



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Ninsect on 13 August 2014

They are wrong in Europe and rest of the world. It's not like they track or show sales for many of those countries individually so adjusting up should be relatively easy. Oh, and we know it's undertracked by at least 40k in Germany.



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bananaking21 on 13 August 2014
Mr Khan said:
Sold/shipped here?


they said it in the confrence, this is sold through to consumers. they went out of their way to actually state that. 



Intrinsic on 13 August 2014
alabtrosMyster said:

Everyone who has followed trends jnew the ps4 number has to be way above what's on vgc, it does not even follow the weekly information posted vere (i.e. Ps4 sells more than 100k somwtimes more than 200k a week, yet bumps of 100k are few and far between....)

There is a reason for that... its cause of how VGC lists numbers on the main page. They are rounded up or down for simplicity sake. If you want to see the exact numbers then you have to go into the tools.

Having said that, I agree that VGC tracking is definately off by a lot especially when it comes to the PS4. I think this is cause they can't get a bead on how exactly to track Europe. But in truth they have even been regurlay way off the mark in NA too. Its almost as if in their heads the XB1 is putting up much more of a fisght than it actually is. Sooner or later they are going to figure out that isn't the case and track accordingly. By tomorrow we will at least know if their tracking for NA has improved or not.



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Intrinsic on 13 August 2014
Ninsect said:
They are wrong in Europe and rest of the world. It's not like they track or show sales for many of those countries individually so adjusting up should be relatively easy. Oh, and we know it's undertracked by at least 40k in Germany.

That LTD. But even at that, if we were to tae every major EU teritory and ajust for the error percentage using germany as some sort of basis I think we would have a better idea of just how much they are undertracking in europe. So this would be adjusting for Uk, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands.... then ROW.



Conegamer on 13 August 2014

It is a big gap indeed. I'd like to hear whether or not any changes will be made in light of these revelations.

My guess would be the Rest of World tracking is off.



 

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fighter on 13 August 2014

it also means they have to distribute the discrepancy across the previous periods, for every week


such a mess...



Ninsect on 13 August 2014
Conegamer said:
It is a big gap indeed. I'd like to hear whether or not any changes will be made in light of these revelations.

My guess would be the Rest of World tracking is off.

We know Europe is off too

@fighter: Sure, but they can just average it out. Not that many major releases that would have an effect. It's just that PS4's baseline is way higher than ioi is thinking



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Conegamer on 13 August 2014
Ninsect said:
Conegamer said:
It is a big gap indeed. I'd like to hear whether or not any changes will be made in light of these revelations.

My guess would be the Rest of World tracking is off.

We know Europe is off too

@fighter: Sure, but they can just average it out. Not that many major releases that would have an effect. It's just that PS4's baseline is way higher than ioi is thinking

Yes Europe as well but likely to a lesser percentage margin than the Rest of World



 

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