June NPD numbers came in, so in continuing the series VGChartz.com took a look at the VGChartz hardware data in comparison to the data from the professionals. For reference, here are the comparisons done for March, April, and May NPD data.
In summary, May saw a setback as VGChartz was caught unawares by changing sales trends, overstating Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS sales by 40% and 20% and understating Playstation Portable sales by 30%. This month shows a lot of improvement, though the accuracy is still far from perfect and VGChartz must prove its ability to maintain this accuracy over time. See the comparison table below, which lists hardware sales figures for each platform for NPD's US numbers, Canada numbers, the total, and then the VGChartz NA numbers and the % difference between the NPD total and VGChartz.
NPD June covers sales from June 3rd through July 7th, 2007 -- a 5-week month. So if you're comparing to last month's figures, remember to add 25% to last month's data (or subtract 20% from this month's data) for a valid comparison.
Platform --- % Diff
DS---------- -15%
Wii--------- 9%
PSP--------- 8%
PS2--------- -16%
X360-------- 7%
PS3--------- -14%
GBA--------- -22%
VGChartz.com also took a look at how a pair of industry analysts, Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities and Evan Wilson of Pacific Crest Securities, fared in their predictions of NPD numbers.
More after the Jump.
It always makes me laugh when I see a website quote VGcharts data on their sites, because if there is two words that can best describe the sales data on that site it would be - NOT ACCURATE!
Sony in their financial records came out saying they sold 5 million PS3's - VGcharts is not even close to that number.
Now the NPD numbers have always been the real records. So I would say if your going to use VGcharts then you might as well just make up the numbers up, because it would pretty much be the same thing VGcharts is doing.
VGCharts gave Xbox too many sales and PS3 not enough compared to NPD.
Xbox fanatics are always screaming that VG aren't accurate, and wow, they're right. Just no in the way they thought.
Its all just a guestimation anyway, not worth getting upset over.
i love how gamers have turned into so much more nowadays...Part gamer...Part market analyst..Part PR Specialist...Part hardware tech/developer...They think they are so much while most not having passed the age of 18...it's too funny. What happened to just being a gamer...to well..uh play games...
The only reason VG Chartz exists is the current console war. Things will settle down between the console makers and nobody will care about sales numbers anymore.
Hardware:
American Chart for Week Ending 21st July 2007
Console Weekly Total
PS2 60,938 (+8%) 44,470,146
PS3 45,101 (-13%) 1,692,699
360 32,345 (-5%) 6,567,179
The PS3 outsold the 360 again and by even a larger number this week. the sells of the 360 went down even more this week even though they sold more copies of NCAA 08. I think we will continue to see the PS3 sells rise and the 360 sells fall and eventually software sells will be about even by Christmas.
http://vgchartz.com/aweekly...