"More than 50 million sellthrough" as of December 6th according to official numbers would suggest that the PS4 is ovetracked, so it's all good. We have it at 49 million on November 26th, ten more days of sales, ~1 million more sales, that's more or less spot on in total, regardless of whether or not black friday week is right.
| RolStoppable said: VGC being off with its sales estimates isn't a recent development, so the people who are still here are used to it. If this thread is actually about users complaining about wrong numbers only when they are on the wrong side of the fence (meaning that overtracked numbers are gladly accepted as the truth), then that isn't anything new either. If this thread is trying to say that there is a high chance that VGC has to adjust the weekly numbers it posts later on, then that isn't anything new either. People familiar with the methodology would take larger timeframes to judge VGC's accuracy; if the estimates for a full quarter were close to the shipment data released by a console manufacturer, then that was good enough even if individual weeks had a big margin of error. If in this thread's example Black Friday week is too low, then other recent weeks must be too high, otherwise the grand total of PS4 sales doesn't match with Sony's corporate release. |
Stop destroying this poor boy's outrage with logic!
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| Mummelmann said: "More than 50 million sellthrough" as of December 6th according to official numbers would suggest that the PS4 is ovetracked, so it's all good. We have it at 49 million on November 26th, ten more days of sales, ~1 million more sales, that's more or less spot on in total, regardless of whether or not black friday week is right. |
| RolStoppable said: VGC being off with its sales estimates isn't a recent development, so the people who are still here are used to it. If this thread is actually about users complaining about wrong numbers only when they are on the wrong side of the fence (meaning that overtracked numbers are gladly accepted as the truth), then that isn't anything new either. If this thread is trying to say that there is a high chance that VGC has to adjust the weekly numbers it posts later on, then that isn't anything new either. People familiar with the methodology would take larger timeframes to judge VGC's accuracy; if the estimates for a full quarter were close to the shipment data released by a console manufacturer, then that was good enough even if individual weeks had a big margin of error. If in this thread's example Black Friday week is too low, then other recent weeks must be too high, otherwise the grand total of PS4 sales doesn't match with Sony's corporate release. |
Agree with both. BTW, if VGC tracked sales numbers monthly, like NPD, we'd see quite a lower margin of error, probably quite close to what NPD customers get for paying a lot, while we get VGC numbers for free.
Please report this to sony! We can't have them getting humiliated by sites giving false facts! XD
Edit: But anyway. If you are new here then I see how you are surprised and devestated from this. But Vgchartz is the only one that gives us weekly numbers on all regions. Even NPD is soooooo late (or they are just being a bitch) that we had to rely on rumors which everyone keep denying, but actually became more reliable.
Its really hard now to complain about Vgchartz. Since its the only weekly source we are actually getting. I mean when was the last time Sony released PSVita numbers? We just have to use Vgchartz because we nothin else.
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