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Bklover on 17 July 2008

Will VGchartz.com fix the huge discrepancies on MGS4 numbers and ps3 hardware numbers sold?.



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celine on 17 July 2008

This GIF never get old:



 “In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.”  Hiroshi Yamauchi

TAG:  Like a Yamauchi pimp slap delivered by Il Maelstrom; serving it up with style.

Euphoria14 on 17 July 2008

^They usually do.



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brute on 17 July 2008
tombi123 said:
So a year ago, it was a fight for last place between the PS3 and GBA. Now it is a fight between 360 and PS2

 

 but the price cut will help it



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shanbcn on 17 July 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Euphoria14 said:
DMJ, I guess this means you will be closer to that 25% now huh?

After ioi adjusts ^_^

 

After MS shipment LTD it seem you will win the bet way before the end of the year.



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DMeisterJ on 17 July 2008
celine said:
This GIF never get old:

Didn't 360 get to 10 mil first?  Worldwide and in America?



tombi123 on 17 July 2008

BKlover - It should do. There is a pretty big difference.



Bklover on 17 July 2008
psrock said:
I AM OFFICIALLY BOYCOTTING NPD.


360 is undertracked . And remember, we have the highest revenue of all the companies, at least i hope so.

 

 LOL did MS say that?... F***ers lied yet again. When are they gonna stop lol.



Erik Aston on 17 July 2008

Bundles aren't really important, though. They just defer those sales from earlier until launch. I think for most people, if they'vs decided they're going to buy, they might as well buy now. It's nice for us, because we see the real selling power of individual games. But if there were no bundle, I think PS3 would have just outsold 360 by a bigger margin in April and May, and by a smaller margin this month.

It sure is more dramatic to see PS3 outselling 360 by 2:1 in "Microsoft's stronghold," though! Hoo boy!



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Oyvoyvoyv on 17 July 2008
Griffin said:
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superchunk said:
Griffin said:
FishyJoe said:

According to Bloomberg, over 10.9 million Wiis LTD in US. If you add in Canada and the rest of the Americas, VGC almost sounds like it's tracking on the low side comparatively. I've underlined comparatively because I'm not saying VGC is under tracking, only that it may be tracking differently on the low side when you compare.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aK64sYWSB1Rw&refer=asia

 

How do you get that, according to this site we have the wii at 12.55mil for the last week in june, with the US at 10.9 that puts 1.6 for Canada, and thats well above 10%.  If anything it appears we are over tracking.

ummm, your forgeting about all those little countries below the US.

10.9 + 1.1 = 12m

Then about 500k for the rest of NA. Sure, that's reasonable.

 

You are out of your mind if you think there are 500k sales of the wii for central and south America, and does Nintendo even ship wii's to South America, i think the suppliers buy them from the US and ship them down south.

 

You are aware that south America isn't a part of North America, right?

As for the numbers, look at this.

NA population: 523M

US population: 304M

Canada population: 33M

Rest population: 186M

Are you telling me that the rest 186M people, couldn't have bought 500.000 Wiis, when a less than 1/5 population bought more than twice as much?

 

You do know how little people make on average in South America, Brazil, 2006 average is $4600, the US is $42,000+.  Mexico is about $7500, the rest of SA is even lower.

 
I think you're joking, but I'm not sure. North America is what VGC has America as. I used North America. Brasil alone has a population of 188M (I think), so how the heck could I have included SA? If I'm wrong, and VGC tracks all of America, what I wrote is still valid, as I used NA only. Once again, South America is a continent, and not a part of North America.

 

South America(SA)/Central Amerca is poor, they have not bought 500k wii's.  The numbers i provided are correct for the average income.  I know what VGC tracks.  I'm saying we have over tracked if we go by NPD numbers.

 

And I'm saying it's not. I also believe you do not know what VGC tracks. I myself don't really know, but everyone says NA, and I assume the majority is correct here.

The numbers you provided for average income mean next to nothing. Mexico is 7500 dollars. But there is a huge class difference there. The top 15% stand for 60% of the total income. This means that those 16.5M in Mexico (not including the 70M not in Canada, USA and Mexico) have an average income of 30.000 USD a year. Considering the far lower prices there, this equals to about the same as a US citizen. I believe this is higher than Canada, but I'm not certain. The Brazil average means nothing, as it is in Others, not NA.

So solely by population, those 15% should equal out more than half of Canada, making 500K a safe bet. And this isn't even including the 70M out of the big 3 in NA.

 EDIT: Sorry, that's supposed to be 30-40M out of the big 3. Sorry!

 



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