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Arcturus on 30 July 2008

 

As the title suggests, I’d like to know how accurate the PSP software sales are on this site. If they aren’t accurate, where should they be sitting at?

Here are the total software figures that appear in the weekly software and hardware sales for each region.


                    PSP Software
   
Japan            19,407,329    
NA                 53,156,210    
Others            4,025,125   

WW               76,530,279

The big thing that jumps out is the software sales in Others. With hardware sales at 13M in Others, the tie ratio ends up being a pathetic 0.30. This seems odd as the tie ratio for Japan is 1.94, and 4.02 for NA. Looking at the games database, I added up the sales for the first 50 games that appear when searching for PSP games, filtering on the PAL region. The total came up to 15.38M in sales for that first page alone. So, why does the total on the weekly Others hardware and software page show a total of 4M? There are also quite a few PSP games that are missing sales data for the Others region.





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Hawkeye on 30 July 2008

Perhaps piracy is rampant in Europe?



Arcturus on 30 July 2008

^ I don't think piracy is that bad in Europe. Besides the sales data in the database contradicts the total figure found in the Others hardware/software weekly sales.



FishyJoe on 30 July 2008

Use the numbers from corporate reports if you want any type of accurate number.

It even says right above the totals that the database is incomplete. If it says that, I'm not sure why you are expecting accuracy.



Arcturus on 30 July 2008

If the numbers can be obtained from corporate reports, why isn't it reflected here?



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Incandescence on 30 July 2008

Lots of work.



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FishyJoe on 30 July 2008
Arcturus said:
If the numbers can be obtained from corporate reports, why isn't it reflected here?

Because people don't have unlimited free time.

 



llewdebkram on 30 July 2008

They are 100% accurate, ioi and his family hang around game stores all day personally counting each PSP game sold.



Arcturus on 30 July 2008
FishyJoe said:
Arcturus said:
If the numbers can be obtained from corporate reports, why isn't it reflected here?

Because people don't have unlimited free time.

 

I don't expect every PSP title to have complete and perfect data. I was refering to the total PSP software sales. It's not consistent on this site. As I mentioned in the first post, the sales in the game database are greater than 15M for the PAL region, while the total on weekly Others is sitting at 4M.

 



FishyJoe on 30 July 2008

What part of the database being incomplete aren't you understanding?