Aura7541 said:
Mummelmann said:
I specifically wrote Jan 3rd to March 21st though, compared to the same period last year, and it's down for that period yoy. I don't know you'd change the dates; I'm looking at all the available numbers we have and comparing the same time period from last year. I suppose one could argue that the Feb launch in Japan would skew the numbers in 2014's favor, but that would be wrong due to the fact that Jan is a strong month in Japan and the 5-6 weeks with zero sales more or less make up for the bigger launch numbers, it may perhaps be a disadvantage even. Cutting the comparison short at March 1st seems kinda arbitrary unless one is vocally opposed to the idea that a market leader can be down entering its second full CY.
My whole point, regardless of what time window we choose or not; if the One being down is bad then it is certainly not good for the market leader to be down as well, or even flat, this is only the second full calendar year we're approaching and consoles normally show decent levels of growth at this point in time.
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Well, I can't go to March 21st when Sony's official sold-through numbers only go up to March 1st
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Fair enough, but are we to discount entirely the numbers of the sales site we're currently browsing and using? I'm comparing last year's vgchartz numbers to this year's, to be clear, and these show it to be down. Unless there's a serious case of undertracking, even official numbers probably won't show much other than being flat yoy as a likely best case scenario so my point still stands imo.
There was a lot of mistrust in the numbers during the holidays and they proved to be wrong, but the PS4 was actually overtracked, much to the shock and dismay of the "undertracked" crowd on the forums...
We can wait for official numbers, sure, but I think they'll be telling pretty much the same story.