Comments on: Wii Sales Nipping At Xbox 360’s Heels

By: concerned about concerned.

concerned about concerned. — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:10:49 +0000

@concerned
well concerned, if you would read the ‘how we get our numbers’ bit on the site, you would understand that the numbers are quite reliable.
from following the numbers for the past few months and comparing to the big business trackers like media create and NPD. I can see vgcharts japanese numbers are really good, with only slight discrepancies from media create or famitsu.
USA weekly isnt tracked by NPD but adding weekly data from vgcharts gives close numbers to NPD monthly, and vgcharts alters numbers accordingly if a large difference between NPD monthly and them occurs.
Eu data is more difficult to compare as i dont know much about GFK [the PAL tracker], but i have seen a whole quarter of data change on vgc [for DS and PS3 mainly] to coincide with what i believe must be GFK releasing quarterly numbers… which means that even if weekly it is a bit off, the totals are probably the most accurate out there for worldwide [unless you only want to check numbers whenever GFK, NPD and the Jp trackers release on the same day.]

in fact a few months back vgc lowered the 360 numbers by a few thousand [nothing like the stupidly huge changes on nexgenwars] due to overtracking compared to NPD, so if it is still adding too many 360s, Wii may be even nearer than that.

By: Concerned

Concerned — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:50:42 +0000

What moron takes vgchartz seriously? It is hard to believe that news articles have to be scrutinized like this now. NEWS ALERT: vgchartz.com stinks

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:28:02 +0000

until Halo 3 is released…

By: brawler

brawler — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:26:35 +0000

WII will own the console wars!!

By: brawler

brawler — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:24:35 +0000

by the end of this month the WII will probably surpass the xbox 360

By: imaballa

imaballa — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:15:40 +0000

Wow, are you telling me PS3 sold almost half what Xbox 360 sold in only 7 months compared to Xbox 360 which has been out 1 year 7 months?

PS3 must be selling at a faster rate than Xbox 360 then, nobody really seems to realize that… interesting.

By: wiifan

wiifan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:32:41 +0000

well it looks as if the wii is gonna be the 1 console winner this year but i think the ds i gonna surpass the sales of ps2 with ease just look at its numbers