yeah that cant be right
DS 33million vs psp 23million thus i think it is 12million in the US
the true surprise is with the ps2, the highest figure is europe by a fair margin + since i assume europe sales are growing faster than NA (various factors US economy going down the toilet, former eastern countries becoming richer etc), europe is now the largest / most important market in the world
US economy going down the toilet? I'd hate to see what you consider the EU economy then since USA GDP is growing faster and second, wouldn't that cause more PS2 sales versus new-gen consoles, since it's by far the cheapest?
Anyway these sales figures look reasonable, I guess. I had no idea Taiwan and Korea accounted for significant sales before, that is interesting to me. The USA figures mostly match NPD pretty exactly, except to the end of July as far as I can tell. The phrase "until July" is confusing. Does that mean until end of july or until first of July? As I say, the USA NPD number only seem to directly match the former. Because I know 360 was at 5.9m end of July.
So yes, they're definitly another reasonable estimate. The Japan figures are also about right. The one question is where they got their Euro data as usual and how accurate it is. Of course in Hardware sales Japan and USA are well tracked but EU is not as much.
Also, Canada is missing, and Canada is a pretty big market, one where 360 does very well, and also Australia is missing, and I guess any other countries than that (say, New Zealand, and Middle Eastern countries, etc etc) which may be insignificant.
For example, 360 has probably sold 400-500k or so to date in Canada, and I dont see those accounted for anywhere, they're definitly not in the USA number. Unless the chart is using Europe as a catch all term for "Not the USA or far east", which I guess is possible.
Personally, I just go with the console manufacturers shipped numbers every three months and call it a day.
Except Sony seems to get huge differences in shipped vs sold sometimes. I mean PS3 I think wasn't it about 6 million shipped versus like 3.3 million sold at one point? This also happened with PSP at one point, Sony was actually claiming PSP was a faster seller than PS2 at the same point at one point, but it seemed like they were just shipping huge amounts and not selling very many. I'm sure that's caught up now.
Also, do Sony and Nintendo even give shipped anymore? Nintendo always gave sold not shipped and last Q I guess Sony followed suit, at least for some consoles. Unless they're still releasing shipped numbers and I just dont know about it.
As mentioned in the OP. (My brain does not connect NDS with DS.)
