These arguments never hold sway, because of one immutable fact. This site uses a methodology to track console sales. Thus a reasonable person would suspect that if one set of figures is drastically off then all the sales figures must be drastically off. Sometimes they are with games, but never with hardware.

GfK now cover South Africa:

Through May 08:

Hardware Units LTD:

PS2: 750,000
PSP: 95,000
360: 65,000
WII: 45,000
PS3: 40,000
NDS: 25,000

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I am convinced this is one of Kingofwhale's alt accounts.

He is constantly bitching on numerous sites regarding his "perceived" viewed discrepancies towards VGC's numbers. He had a recent thread similar to this one, and I for one think this is a camouflaged ninja account of uneducated ramblings...to similiar to his own.....LOL epic fail thread LOL!!!!!!!

I love you BKK2... where do you get all this stuff.

Also Can I ask why this seems to show the Wii ahead of the PS3 in Spain by the end of 2007?... what's going on there?

Do MS numbers include RRoD replacements in their shipments?

Couple things...

Xbox 360 does pretty well in regions not tracked by NPD, Chart Track, GFK, or Media Create. This is especially true in what I call tropical areas - i.e. Latin America (Mexico all the way down to Chile) and the wealthier countries of South East Asia.

Our data runs further than NPD data, so our totals for the Americas are always going to be higher than NPD since they include hw sales for more areas - North & South America and since we have a longer time frame.

In terms of inventory, with the introduction of the $300 20-gig price point for 360 in the USA sales have increased for that model while inventory is getting phased out. The stores are somewhat loathe to take the new $350 model since a price drop is likely coming in early September, and since the old $350 model, not at $300 is selling better than it was before.

LOL! You're pretending to be drunk on a website?

That's sad... Unless of course you type exactly how a drunk would sound just before falling into a gutter

I don't know where they get the Spain figure from ... maybe AC Nielsen. I'd like to see the GfK figures, as I suspect they also have Wii ahead of PS3 in Spain by the end of 2007. Last Spanish PS3 figure I have is 615,000 in May.

El Pais

 Where are you from?, if you are from mexico (like i am)  you should know than the ps3 has been in stores since the usa launch it was betwen % 8 000 - 10 000 pesos (800-1000 dollars) and actuali with the official launch august 07 its at the same price (8 000), so, the official  launch means nothing on the ps3 sales.

And like Gebx said above, Mexico rocks, those 600k could be for any system, but the attention than microsoft have here its why its the best console sold. Just looking at the price, the core is betwen 300 - 330 dollars, the wii its at 450 and the ps3 at 800.

In this thread you can see the biggest problem that plagues VGC -- there are about 5 posters contributing and about 30 posters trolling. The decay of the community is the biggest challenge facing this site.