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lombard2578 on 30 March 2009

You can see here for famitsu numbers:

http://www.geocities.jp/v7160c_l5/index.html

http://www.japan-gamecharts.com/

http://garaph.info/index.php

 



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Kasz216 on 30 March 2009

Doesn't matter...

they're both reliable enough. The thing is... data tracking is really nothing more but a guess anyway.

They're rarely far enough away to where either number would be considered inaccurate....

and after another week or two the numbers are "magically" back in line with each other.  In which case by the jump it's easy to see who messed up... and it's just as often one as it is the other.



TWRoO on 30 March 2009
Kasz216 said:

Doesn't matter...

they're both reliable enough. The thing is... data tracking is really nothing more but a guess anyway.

They're rarely far enough away to where either number would be considered inaccurate....

and after another week or two the numbers are "magically" back in line with each other.  In which case by the jump it's easy to see who messed up... and it's just as often one as it is the other.

Isn't there a 1 million difference between the PS2s lifetime totals?

I thought one of them had it around 21.5 million, and the other almost 22.5 million.

 



Kasz216 on 30 March 2009
TWRoO said:
Kasz216 said:

Doesn't matter...

they're both reliable enough. The thing is... data tracking is really nothing more but a guess anyway.

They're rarely far enough away to where either number would be considered inaccurate....

and after another week or two the numbers are "magically" back in line with each other.  In which case by the jump it's easy to see who messed up... and it's just as often one as it is the other.

Isn't there a 1 million difference between the PS2s lifetime totals?

I thought one of them had it around 21.5 million, and the other almost 22.5 million.

That's only a 10% statistical variance.  That's at the edge but it's not unreasonable when you consider that both numbers are estimates with statstical variance.

I mean assuming both had a reliability of being withing 5% of the real number They could be as much as 10% apart before you could say one of the two was off.

I think the accepted they have is usually like 5-10% each.



Oyvoyvoyv on 30 March 2009
TWRoO said:
Kasz216 said:

Doesn't matter...

they're both reliable enough. The thing is... data tracking is really nothing more but a guess anyway.

They're rarely far enough away to where either number would be considered inaccurate....

and after another week or two the numbers are "magically" back in line with each other.  In which case by the jump it's easy to see who messed up... and it's just as often one as it is the other.

Isn't there a 1 million difference between the PS2s lifetime totals?

I thought one of them had it around 21.5 million, and the other almost 22.5 million.

 

Famitsu has Ps2 at 21.6M as of end of Feb 09. Link

Media Create has Ps2 at 21.45M as of mid Feb 09. Link

 

Edit: I forgot the links...

 

 



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

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Oyvoyvoyv on 30 March 2009

Double post... Again?



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

TWRoO on 30 March 2009

Perhaps I am thinking of Dengeki?... is their total higher?

If not then I don't know where I got it from.



lombard2578 on 30 March 2009
Oyvoyvoyv said:
TWRoO said:
Kasz216 said:

Doesn't matter...

they're both reliable enough. The thing is... data tracking is really nothing more but a guess anyway.

They're rarely far enough away to where either number would be considered inaccurate....

and after another week or two the numbers are "magically" back in line with each other.  In which case by the jump it's easy to see who messed up... and it's just as often one as it is the other.

Isn't there a 1 million difference between the PS2s lifetime totals?

I thought one of them had it around 21.5 million, and the other almost 22.5 million.

 

Famitsu has Ps2 at 21.6M as of end of Feb 09. Link

Media Create has Ps2 at 21.45M as of mid Feb 09. Link

 

Edit: I forgot the links...

 

 

Your number are right.

It's vgchartz which have the ps2 at 22,8m.

 



Jo21 on 30 March 2009

the difference between the two are 10k at most.

media create comes later with more than rounded numbers.



outlawauron on 30 March 2009
celine said:

Some hard data about MediaCreate:

Characteristics of the two data sources and a wealth of high coverage

Retail POS data are based. Coverage of data sources, roughly 57%, and cover a wide range of businesses. In addition, the availability of pre-shipment and digestive conditions, trends and data around pre-owned, and used as a complementary qualitative information from interviews with the store.

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=it&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.m-create.com%2Fcompany%2F&sl=ja&tl=en&history_state0=

I read that Media Create's ~60% coverage is better than Famitsu.



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