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silicon on 13 November 2009

Isn't others also Canada?



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puffy on 13 November 2009

Canada is North America, not Others.



 

student on 13 November 2009

Not sure on this one. I'd like to think ioi provided legit info here but ti does seem curious



nordlead on 13 November 2009

1) sometimes games launch over the course of weeks in PAL territories. This happens quite commonly and has already been proven in this thread. Take Wii Fit Plus for example, where it sold 10k the first week, then shot up to 100k.

2) just hit "report problem with this game" link and report it and it will be taken care of. Sometimes ioi gets in pre-order sales and they get mistaken for regular sales when a game gets delayed last minute. I've had ioi correct 10's of games due to games not being released yet or other tracking issues.

If you take those two points into account you won't look like an idiot when you create a thread like this.




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Cypher1980 on 13 November 2009

Its been out in the UK for at least a week !



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kitler53 on 13 November 2009
ioi said:

Actually those are the PC sales - I completely misread the console in the data and assumed it was the PS3 version.

Thanks for pointing that one out. More haste, less speed they say. And yes this is fairly embarassing and maybe shows we need more people checking over the data before it is posted. Same with the mysterious changing of last weeks PS3 sales in Japan to PS2. We're only human and do a lot of this by hand (i.e in Excel) so these mistakes happen unfortunately

I obviously don't know anything about your methods but if you are using Excel you should consider setting up some VBA code.  i've automated about half the thing I do here so things that should take me several hours to do only take minutes.  it's how i can spend so much time on vgchartz each day. xD



dolemit3 on 13 November 2009
Cypher1980 said:
Its been out in the UK for at least a week !

On the PC and 360 but not on the PS3.



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Chrizum on 13 November 2009
ioi said:

Actually those are the PC sales - I completely misread the console in the data and assumed it was the PS3 version.

Thanks for pointing that one out. More haste, less speed they say. And yes this is fairly embarassing and maybe shows we need more people checking over the data before it is posted. Same with the mysterious changing of last weeks PS3 sales in Japan to PS2. We're only human and do a lot of this by hand (i.e in Excel) so these mistakes happen unfortunately

Thanks for the clarification, I'm glad I could help. Obviously I love the site (otherwise I'd be long gone) and sales tracking improvement concerns us all. Cheers ioi that you responded nicely and maturely, unlike nordlead (what's the deal?)



dragonmagician on 13 November 2009
silicon said:
Isn't others also Canada?

Someone doesn't know where Canada is, or thinks USA makes up the entire America region.



Fab_GS on 13 November 2009
dragonmagician said:
silicon said:
Isn't others also Canada?

Someone doesn't know where Canada is, or thinks USA makes up the entire America region.

LMAO he is from Canada.