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Linkzmax on 13 April 2009
haxxiy said:
Jlmadyson said:
Here is an explanation, just like February VGchartz is wrong again. That is a pretty good explanation. The gap between the February makes pretty much zero sense for March NPD preview. Zero, and lets be honest all these promotions Sony has tried to do at retail for the last couple of months are running dry aka getting old. Don't think for a second all this price cut talk did not effect PS3 in March NPD because believe me it did.

What is more somehow Vgchartz wants us to believe 360 did much worse week over week in March when it had the RE5 bundle which did very very well, and then on top of that somehow the PS3 outperformed week over week ffrom month to month comparisons.

Haha I think not. VGC will be dead wrong next week just like they were last month.

 

VGChartz was off by about 75k for both PS360 last month, compared to NDP. Then it got adjusted and the difference became about 20k, which should be about right considering VGC tracks retailer to consumers opposed to factory to retailers tracked by NDP.

VGC is about 15k off compared to the preview, nearly the same as last month after adjustments what, as I explained, should be right.

There's nothing making zero sense here. NPD will also come with lower X360 numbers and higher PS3 numbers on March compared to February, and that's it, you accepting or not.

That isn't what NPD tracks. That's what the corporations record, and they'd have absolutely no reason to pay for numbers they know themselves.



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scat398 on 16 April 2009

Well at least now we can compare the numbers. It appers 360 is selling at about 65K a week and PS3 at 43K a week. That's a pretty big drop from last month for both consoles. It looks like they'll need to adjust the PS3 down to match the adjustment made for the 360.



Dark Chaos on 16 April 2009
haxxiy said:
scat398 said:
I think the NPD data will show what is has been showing every month. The 360 will sell between 300 and 400K and the PS3 will be just above 200K.

Haha you failed. The preview confirmed what VGChartz recently adjusted, the difference between them was about 60k, which means roughly 15k advantage for the X360 each week, on average.

13k - 19k - 15k - 10k to be precise, according to VGChartz. On KZ2 launch the difference was about 6k.

Last week (the first of April) the gap was about 8k, nearly KZ2 launch levels with no new games at all.

HAHA u failed!!! Looks like hes was dead accurate and you were wrong

 



scat398 on 16 April 2009

Im still surprised at the drop in the numbers.  I figured with a five week period sales would still increase in volume which is why I adjusted my estimate up. 



haxxiy on 16 April 2009
Dark Chaos said:
haxxiy said:
scat398 said:
I think the NPD data will show what is has been showing every month. The 360 will sell between 300 and 400K and the PS3 will be just above 200K.

Haha you failed. The preview confirmed what VGChartz recently adjusted, the difference between them was about 60k, which means roughly 15k advantage for the X360 each week, on average.

13k - 19k - 15k - 10k to be precise, according to VGChartz. On KZ2 launch the difference was about 6k.

Last week (the first of April) the gap was about 8k, nearly KZ2 launch levels with no new games at all.

HAHA u failed!!! Looks like hes was dead accurate and you were wrong

 

I thought the preview was calculated by already released data from other trackers or the like.

Please don't pour more salt over it. I admit. PS3 will never catch X360 and the gap will only get bigger.

 



 

 

 

 

 

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Dark Chaos on 16 April 2009
haxxiy said:
Dark Chaos said:
haxxiy said:
scat398 said:
I think the NPD data will show what is has been showing every month. The 360 will sell between 300 and 400K and the PS3 will be just above 200K.

Haha you failed. The preview confirmed what VGChartz recently adjusted, the difference between them was about 60k, which means roughly 15k advantage for the X360 each week, on average.

13k - 19k - 15k - 10k to be precise, according to VGChartz. On KZ2 launch the difference was about 6k.

Last week (the first of April) the gap was about 8k, nearly KZ2 launch levels with no new games at all.

HAHA u failed!!! Looks like hes was dead accurate and you were wrong

 

Please don't pour more salt over it.

I admit. PS3 will never catch X360 and the gap will only get bigger.

 

Don't wry about it. Every month more and more realize this as well