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Tigawoods on 14 August 2008

Hopefully July will be the lowest month in sales over all. August will be a bigger month at least in the HD consoles sales with the 360 showing some good numbers and the PS3 recouping from shortages. Not to mention madden. Wii and DS are the usual beasts. Gonna be one helluva Q3-Q4 sales bracket I hope!



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Squilliam on 14 August 2008
talkingparrot said:
Squilliam please cry for us XD.

Microsoft is lulling you into a false sense of security. Just you wait for NEXT month!

On topic: For the most likely source for the extra unaccounted PS3s - I think if you look at the first two weeks of July the trend doesn't quite fit the "shortages", it should have been more a downward trend from a higher weekly figure IMO.

 



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ssj12 on 14 August 2008
Squilliam said:
blazinhead89 said:
Gobias said:
talkingparrot said:
Squilliam dies.

 

Fixed.

 

lolololol, This is F##ckin Epic, Wheres Starcraft & Squlliam & Mrstickball with their 360 damage control lolololol,

Damage control? Pffft it was awesome numbers for the Xbox360. 200k is almost 100% more than 100k.  

and 220k is 10% better then 200k =P

 



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zexen_lowe on 14 August 2008

Sony's spin:

Jack Tretton, president and CEO of SCEA had this to say: "Our year-to-date sales growth of 99% for the PS3 reaffirms that consumers are indeed embracing PS3 as their entertainment hub-of-choice with its feature-rich offerings like Blu-ray and our recently announced video delivery service. With an unmatched software line-up that includes LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM: Confrontation, Resistance 2 and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, and the anticipated launch of our new 80GB PS3 model, we're confident in a strong second half of the year and look forward to quickly addressing any inventory shortages due to the transition."




marciosmg on 14 August 2008
TWRoO said:
Gobias said:
marciosmg said:
Gobias said:
TWRoO said:
You don't use the VGC number to divide by to work out %age differences.

if the dirrerence between VGC and NPD (for PS3) is ~45k... then it's 45/225 = 0.2

20% difference.

180k was already scaled to US, so it is around 25%.

 

I think he meant that I should have divided 45 by NPD number, not VGC. And right.

 

VGC is 20% lower than NPD number. BUT, NPD number is 25% higher than VGC´s, which is what I was going for, so I am right as well.

 

The wonders of Mathematics :D

Ah okay, that makes more sense. (I'm terrible at math)

 

 

You are correct Marcio.... it can go both ways... it's just you stated "VGC is 25% off".

This means you are assuming NPD is the more likely correct figure.... so you should use that to divide by.

Ok. English isn´t my first language, so maybe I didn´t word it properly bit. I meant off as in different. I don´t know who is the more likely correct one. I wanted to say NPD number is 25% higher compared to VGC.

 

 



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konnichiwa on 14 August 2008
superchunk said:
konnichiwa said:
superchunk said:
SOLIDSNAKE08 said:
superchunk said:
SOLIDSNAKE08 said:

to be fair to vgchartz, they never really made a mistake, as they state the numbers are ESTIMATES. which basically means the numbers are bullshit and probably way way off! lol. its true though!

All tracking companies numbers are estimates.

 

 

NPD is the closest we can get to accurate numbers.

If you say so. To me and NPD not having 40%+ of the market to count allows them the ability to be just as off as VGC or any other tracking firm. Just look how far off the two Japanese firms are from one another most weeks.

EDIT: Read norlead's post, also shows NPD has historically been farther off than VGC.

 

Sorry but in the past members on this forum always used NPD as a confirmation of the the real numbers.  Remember all those 'PS3 overtracked LOOOOL' comments ? Even ioi said it once and now PS3 outsells X360 and VGC looks to be wrong we are all going to say now VGC>>>>>>>>>>>NPD???

I have always maintained that VGC could be >>> than NPD. I havn't seen NPD used as a "confirmation" on this site by ioi. Only by fans of particular consoles to yell at VGC when they think VGC is way off or showing bias etc.

 

Then you didn't checked last month NPD's thread.

And then why ioi adjust the numbers like (almost?) always to what NPD says?

If PS3 looks to be overtracked by VGC the number are adjusted down the week after... Coincidence?






shanbcn on 14 August 2008

wrong place..

 



superchunk on 14 August 2008
konnichiwa said:
superchunk said:

I have always maintained that VGC could be >>> than NPD. I havn't seen NPD used as a "confirmation" on this site by ioi. Only by fans of particular consoles to yell at VGC when they think VGC is way off or showing bias etc.

 

Then you didn't checked last month NPD's thread.

And then why ioi adjust the numbers like (almost?) always to what NPD says?

If PS3 looks to be overtracked by VGC the number are adjusted down the week after... Coincidence?

ioi adjust the numbers every single week. I know you see the threads every week about "xxx was adjusted xxx beats xxx now!".

Mostly the adjustments are made when the manufacturer states something more so than anything else. Either way, I bet NPD sends out adjustments too, its just the media doesn't see it.

 



gebx on 14 August 2008
Gobias said:
crumas2 said:
azrm2k said:
Alright 360 fans. Don't disappoint. The PS fans have shown how to have epic meltdowns and now it's your turn to shine. Entertain me please.

 

I'm not seeing a lot of spinning or meltdowns from 360 fans, but I do see a lot of gloating from PS3 fans.  I guess that will have to do for entertainment.

 

The real 360 fans aren't even here yet. (Starcraft, Squilliam, Mrstickball, Gebx etc.)

 

Sorry to disappoint, just got in and missed the whole fireworks...

 

 



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epicurean on 14 August 2008

I tried saying something was up when the PS3 was selling like crazy on amazon and this site was reporting it was doing terrible. Everyone said "amazon doesn't mean anything", but the complete discrepency between the two just didn't add up.

How many posts of "NPD is wrong" are going to come now?



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