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kirby007 on 18 July 2008

did you even read your own post ?
if you adjust VGC number to USA only it's almost the same...



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appolose on 18 July 2008

I don't understand. Is this all that big of a difference, considering the number of extra countries VG includes into the count?



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Jandre002 on 18 July 2008

I didn't say it was off or not. And initially, because I had the date all the way up to last week, there was a much larger difference.

Its not a bashing thread, like I said. Actually, its seems its more of a support thread to confirm accuracy to doubters.



Dolla Dolla on 18 July 2008

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=184138

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Sqrl on 18 July 2008

Easy folks, the OP is making a comparison and if he has some stuff wrong you can point it out to him and try to help rather than just being impatient. I know Jandre002 has had some ...erm questionable ...threads/posts in the past but that doesn't give anyone the right to be rude to the man.

Lets keep this thread a constructive one.
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Kasz216 on 18 July 2008
Jandre002 said:
Yakuzaice said:

Why did you include the first week of July in the VGC numbers?

@thebigfatj

Considering vgchartz is banned on neogaf, I don't think they are the ones who posted those numbers.

I pulled the NPD numbers from Neogaf. They added up YTD from NPD.

 

You can't add up YTD NPD numbers. If you did that you would have to assume they never adjust their numbers. Which would be very unproffesional.

Unless you pay for their numbers you really can't be sure what their LTD are unless they announce them.  Like NPD did... and even then you wouldn't be able to isolate exact numbers from a timeframe.



Skeeuk on 18 July 2008

well interesting OT

even though ps3 sales seem more favourable on NPD, i will stick to vgchartz for my info regarding sales.

vgchartz is amongst the best videogame sites i have ever come across, and i congratulate ioi for the work he and his mods have done:)



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whatever on 18 July 2008

Your 1 week short on the VGC numbers. NPD runs through July 5th.



Jandre002 on 18 July 2008
whatever said:
Your 1 week short on the VGC numbers. NPD runs through July 5th.

 

 well GOD DAMNIT! LOL. I thought about that but including 5 extra days seemed like it offset too much.



TWRoO on 18 July 2008

NPD also didn't start till the first full week in January because NPD December ran into it, so they don't include the week ending the 5th Jan.

Give me a second I will make a table you can copy (assuming those NPD numbers are correct)

edit. this is the correct set of VGC numbers to correspond with NPD Jan-Jun

Console Wii PS3 X360 PSP DS
America
3,911,078
1,711,802
1,638,405
1,680,688
3,628,702
NPD (USA) 3,482,000 1,608,000 1,354,000 1,482,000 3,187,000


The thing you have to understand is that it is generally ok to take off 10% (from Americas) when you are talking about the whole market... but individual consoles can sometimes differ slightly because they are more or less popular in other countries (PSP used to do terribly in Canada, PS3 used to as well but I think it picked up, 360 used to be comparitively more popular, I am not sure about now because we haven't had a recent NPD for Canada)

So if you add up all the consoles together. and then multiply NPD by 1.1 it comes out very close to VGC (I think VGC is about 200k higher) but like I said, the PSP doesn't do so well in Canada, but DS and Wii now do better, so using the same rule on them is slightly flawed.