jammy2211 Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Excuse me, but I would appreciate it if you didn't talk down to me or anybody else in this thread. The fact is you said: "These figures are directly taken from a press release. They're 100% accurate and nextgenconsoles have not made them themselves, hence why they're being reported by IGN, Gamespot and every other site." Which has some element of truth but is not entirely the case. Again, I quote: "The console sales numbers you see on the front page of NexGen Wars are estimates, and are not intended to represent exact, down to the minute sales as only Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony know the exact sales figures of their respective consoles." and then "We then take these numbers and, based on past sales trends, extrapolate the numbers out to give as close to real-time estimates as possible." What exactly are you trying to prove? These figures are for MAY. NOT THE OVERALL FIGURES ON THE FRONT PAGE YOUR QUOTE IS TALKING ABOUT. These figures are made by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Their big databse which manages shipping to all retailers in America counts up all the times they send new stocks of Wii's to shops in America, and makes a total which is then made for the monthly sales record. This record is then sent to a press office. The press office puts all the sales figures into a press release, and posts it on their site. The press site is read by many sites, including the likes of IGN, Gamespot and nexgenwars. In this instance, nexgenwars have posted the monthly sales which come from this press release which come from official sales from the console maker. I honestly think you must be debating something completely different to me, cause I don't get how you can't comprehend what I'm saying. I'm simply saying, these figures for the month of May in the first post are 100% accurate from the official console retail department. I've been saying that all along, and whatever the hell you're trying to tell me I don't know but really it's nothing to do with what I've said in every post so far.
Fierce_LiNk Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 If you read from post 10/11 onwards, we were debating the credibility of nexgenwars. Every post Shadow and Zech have made in this thread have been directly related to his initial post about nexgenwars.
jammy2211 Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 If you read from post 10/11 onwards, we were debating the credibility of nexgenwars. Every post Shadow and Zech have made in this thread have been directly related to his initial post about nexgenwars. My intial response was a reponse to him question these figures. Not the overall figures. Hence why I refered to them as "These figures". The figures origianally posted in the thread at the start (Fancy that ), and the ones the entire discussion was to based around (hence the thread being made with those figures). I can't be held responcible if you misinterpreted what I wrote, but I think I made it clear in every post I was discussing the figures this thread was started about. I really tried to make it obvious what I was talking about (namely by continuously highlighting the word MAY), but alas people still misinterpreted. It was just a misunderstanding anyway, I hope we've finally got things in a way people can understand. These figures are accurate, the overall ones on the front page are not.
Fierce_LiNk Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 It was around post 12/13 where things went off. I think Zech and Shadow were talking about the nexgen site, where the figures for May lagged behind the official figures from Nintendo. Then, you said "The figures are fine, they're from an official press release and hence accurate." (Post 13) Reading that, it wasn't entirely clear whether you meant the original post, or the nexgen site, which the focus had then shifted on to. I think that's why confusion has ensured. Nobody was ever doubting the figures in the first post.
jammy2211 Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 It was around post 12/13 where things went off. I think Zech and Shadow were talking about the nexgen site, where the figures for May lagged behind the official figures from Nintendo. Then, you said "The figures are fine, they're from an official press release and hence accurate." (Post 13) Reading that, it wasn't entirely clear whether you meant the original post, or the nexgen site, which the focus had then shifted on to. I think that's why confusion has ensured. Nobody was ever doubting the figures in the first post. I don't think anyone cares anymore anyway. Wii is kicking arse, let's keep it that way .
Fierce_LiNk Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Haha, agreed. A nice way to end that confusion, I think. Well, here's to June, and hopefully another great press release at the end of it.
Speedfreak Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Don't trust nextgenwars, the guy even admits it's based on NPD figures plus estimates. Just follow NPD, they get released every month. EDIT: Haha, wait, I didn't bother to read that arguement before. Nevermind.
Zechs Merquise Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Just to clarify, I wasn't knocking the original NPD sales data for May I was knocking Nextgen (which is a poor site in it's own right anyway) after it was pointed out to me that they have a ridiculous way of compiling their data.
LazyBoy Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Just to clarify, I wasn't knocking the original NPD sales data for May I was knocking Nextgen (which is a poor site in it's own right anyway) after it was pointed out to me that they have a ridiculous way of compiling their data. Ditto 10chr
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