kowenicki said: @ mikeb
Your contstant undermining of vgchartz figures is tiresome at best and insulting at worst.... |
I respect VGChartz for what it is and actually the managers don't claim to be absolutely accurate at all. I think VGChartz provides a great and quite unique community service!
However local fully professional tracking services also have error margins to deal with. VGChartz tries to track sales globally instead of just highly specialized tracking locally, this is of course a mammoth task. Naturally when dealing with so many different regions and countries, including areas for which there is a severe lack of available 3rd party tracking data error margins will be bigger, especially so in course of time. (I have studied statistics as part of my education)
That's why I first and foremost use sold to retail data for direct sales comparisons, as this data is complete, absolute and has to be legally accurate for Microsoft as well as Sony (so I take its value above any tracking data, not just VGChartz!). I however do believe there are more still unsold 360s on the shelves than PS3s, this due to the well protected standard PS3 boxes taking up more shelf space.