I did, and I stand by what I said. The rest of your post feels like a consequence of the former (which is explained of it being a NPD thread) rather than an evidenced case of NPD-bias. I don't think people take too lightly the numbers of other places. PS3 basically managed to beat Xbox 360 thanks to Japan numbers and the slight outselling in Europe, and we all acknowledge those two markets being decisive factors. NPD is nice and all that, and since it used to be Xbox's territory, it's obviously the one that gets the most emphasize when going for the console marketshare discussion thingy whenever it is involved. That doesn't mean the rest is disregarded.

Then again we all know that Xbox has zero chance in Japan like Lawlight tried to ironically propose, so there's no point in bringing it up, and much less in NPD thread. It's not that it doesn't matter, it's the fact that it doesn't matter to Xbox.

While what you typed is absolutely, and hilariously, true on all accounts, why would you say this and not say something a little more relevant to the thread, such as: The PS4 in November will wipe out the little ground that Xbox made up on the PS4 over the last three months in the United States, and not only will it wipe out that gap, but it will then increase the gap by an extra couple hundred thousand if not a million, just like last year

Yep, I did. I'm really surprised it's 47k.

You keep saying "we," but I wasn't saying "you." I was saying that Barney would say it's an npd thread, which is fine, since this board is generally nuanced about sales discussions, and then expressing my frustration with less knowledgeable forums and sites where the US is really the only region that is treated as if it matters. And no, I'm not writing an analytical essay here, I write enough of those in grad school :)

Anyway, I didn't mean for my prior post to be argumentative, so sorry if it came across that way.

Oh sorry, I interpreted it that way, hence my reply.

Hmm... for perspective? Because this is the biggest market for the Xbox and yet this "big" difference is smaller than 2-3 weeks in a smaller market like Japan?

The FIFA decline could be due to the lack of an xbox bundle in the US for it or digital.

I'm surprised the xb1 won by such an amount and it was only a few dollars cheaper.

the XB1S sold really well this month. Considering that last month Madden did 16k and now its around 60k. Will be interesting to get Halo numbers.

This. I expected around a 47k gap to be in the PS4 favor tho.

If you want to put it into perspective then you wouldn't be comparing an established franchise with over 7 entries to a brand new IP marred with connectivity issues at launch that also got utterly destroyed by critics. So, if you want to put things into perspective, how about comparing another first party game from an established franchise that had its own month of no conpetition from any first party title?

All I asked was, wasn't FH3 the only first party exclusive that launched that month? That tweet is completely redundant if so

Ouch! Forza sure is a niche title even dribecluv sold over 3 million

Crazy to think when the Wii was dominating the ps3 that not only would the ps3 last much longer it would also outsell the Wii U, it's successor,  in its final year.  Crazy. 

Holy shit the 3 month win streak barely dented it's lead.  Come November it will be growing again. 

If Microsoft can bring up other regions in their NPD pr then so can we. I don't see you giving out about microsft not sticking to the US.