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Dr.Vita on 07 May 2015
JayWood2010 said:
Dr.Vita said:


Who is Brett?


ioi.  The owner of VGChartz

Ah, his name is Brett. ^^




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Yakuzaice on 07 May 2015
Ryng_Tolu said:

Just my opinion 3DS is overtracked because old year.

3DS in 2015 is undertracked according to NPD, the Japan numbers are confirmed ecc... 3DS is for sure overtracked in some years like 2011 to 2014.

The reason seem obvius... 3DS according to VGChartz sell more in the Europe than in the US. that is ridiculus.

The gap US - EU is probabily only 10% less, but 3DS to sell in 3 intere years (2012 to 2014) more in Europe than in the US is not possible.

A good portion of the 3DS overtracking is from before this quarter, but there was definitely overtracking this year as well.  At the end of 2014 VGC had the 3DS at 50.104m (Jan 3).  Shipments were at 50.41m (Dec 31).  So while that number is probably overtracked, VGC still showed 300k+ on shelves.  Now, 3 months later VGC has the 3DS at 52.15m (Mar 28) versus 52.06m shipped (Mar 31).  So some significant overtracking definitely occured over the three months.

I agree though that it is likely due to Europe/Rest of World.

EDIT: If the 3DS is undertracked in the US I don't think it is by a significant amount.

Jan - Don't believe we got a confirmed number, but someone towards the end of the thread said 74k.  VGC shows 93k

Feb - NPD 395k.  VGC 382k.

Mar - NPD 263k.  VGC with 1 week to go 201k.  Unless that last week sees a big boost it will probably be around 245k.

So overall that would be undertracked, but only by 12k.  Less than 2%.



Jaywood2010 on 07 May 2015
Yakuzaice said:
JayWood2010 said:

Do we have 3DS official numbers?  Ill add to op as well if we do

Lifetime is at 52.06m shipped.  For the quarter it did 1.65m.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150507e.pdf


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Platina on 07 May 2015

Numbers are actually pretty good!



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Teeqoz on 07 May 2015
Mr.Playstation said:
uran10 said:
The nintendo numbers are supposedly shipped and vgchartz tries to track sold. From this it honestly doesn't look like much of any overtracking happened with Wii U but I do think most of the software is undertracked especially mk8.

In the OP he does say he's unsure and anyways what company ships 9.54 million units, they usually round it out or somethibg. To the nearest million.


No. Companies have to give as accurate shipped figures as possible. Depending on the quantities, they may report to the closest 100k, or in Nintendo's case, as the quantity isn't that big (compared to, say, the iPhone), they report for the closest 10k.



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Mr.Playstation on 09 May 2015
Teeqoz said:
Mr.Playstation said:

In the OP he does say he's unsure and anyways what company ships 9.54 million units, they usually round it out or somethibg. To the nearest million.


No. Companies have to give as accurate shipped figures as possible. Depending on the quantities, they may report to the closest 100k, or in Nintendo's case, as the quantity isn't that big (compared to, say, the iPhone), they report for the closest 10k.

I meant that literally they ship to the nearest million such as if they would they would ship 10 million consoles before telling everyone how many consoles they've shipped. I'm sure that would be a greater achievement than 9.5 million shipped consoles, it even feels better and sounds like a lot of more units. Anyways whether it's shipped or sold or whether the wii U is overtracked or undertracked on VGC, I still thing VGC is very close.



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Illusion on 09 May 2015
Mr.Playstation said:

In the OP he does say he's unsure and anyways what company ships 9.54 million units, they usually round it out or somethibg. To the nearest million.

Nintendo is probably trying to show how close they came to their 3.6 million fiscal year sales figures.



Teeqoz on 09 May 2015
Mr.Playstation said:
Teeqoz said:


No. Companies have to give as accurate shipped figures as possible. Depending on the quantities, they may report to the closest 100k, or in Nintendo's case, as the quantity isn't that big (compared to, say, the iPhone), they report for the closest 10k.

I meant that literally they ship to the nearest million such as if they would they would ship 10 million consoles before telling everyone how many consoles they've shipped. I'm sure that would be a greater achievement than 9.5 million shipped consoles, it even feels better and sounds like a lot of more units. Anyways whether it's shipped or sold or whether the wii U is overtracked or undertracked on VGC, I still thing VGC is very close.


Yeah but here's the problem with that: Nintendo has to give shipped numbers every 3 months in their quarterly financial report, and Nintendo can't just decide to ship enough to get to 10 million, they ship what retailers order.