VG Charts, "The REAL Next Gen Wars!"

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X360 - 6.47million
Wiiiiii - 2.01million
PS3 - 0.64million
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Welcome to VG Charts
VG Charts is the premier source for videogame sales charts on the Internet.

Despite this, the data on VG Charts is unofficial and in some cases incomplete. How can it be the premier source on the Internet then?

Well, videogame sales data is a very difficult commodity to come by. Each territory has different systems by which data is collected and this data is often in conflict with data released directly from game publishers themselves. Attempting to assemble all these scraps of information has been a mine field that has, until today, been avoided.

VG Charts is the first internet website to attempt to, as meticulously and accurately as possible, collect together in one place all the available videogame sales data from across the world and provide users with a one-stop location from which to find out how there favourite game is performing, gain a better understanding of the market as a whole and compare the performance of different games.

A number of different sources and methods are used to produce the data on VG Charts, the following sections aim to explain this in more detail.
From where does the data come?
The Japanese Weekly Charts
There are three tracking companies in Japan which produce weekly sales charts based on polling a proportion of total retailers and extrapolating their data up to represent the data for the whole country:
Media Create
Famitsu / Enterbrain
Dengeki
VG Charts uses a proprietary system which takes publically available data from the above three trackers along with sales and shipment data released from the game manufacturers in Japan to produce what we feel is the most accurate depiction of the pattern of sales for each title.

Since VG Charts does not collect or assemble the raw data itself, we recommend that anybody wishing to use officially sourced data for formal reports and so on should really contact the tracking services above and subscribe to their data, since VG Charts cannot guarantee that all games will be covered- only typically games which make the top 50 at some point in their lifetime. We thank the companies above for the fantastic service that they do for the general public, and urge anybody wishing to find out more to contact them directly.

When analysing the sales of a particular title, or comparing present data to historic data, we strongly recommend the use of VG Charts in your analysis, since all data is adjusted to account for changes over time in tracking methods and so on, and in most cases data is matched up with the official shipment data released periodically by the game manufactuers themselves, and so is as accurate as possible.
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Looks like Sony will be competing against their inability to produce enough consoles this gen and nothing else.
 
Freefrag said:
oh dear PS3 does'nt seem to be doing so well is it..........:P
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You can only sell what you can produce. Please, quit your trolling against the Ps3.

Ck Nish said:
Looks like Sony will be competing against their inability to produce enough consoles this gen and nothing else.
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Exactly. They're shipping out units as soon as they've been produced, and rumours out there say they may even delay European release to prevent this shortage problem.

Even X360 went through this in its launch.
 
Hmm if thats the case, then in the long run they would be seriously loosing, as game devs have invested a lot of money, and if the console doesnt produce, their games lie idle. Which leads to freeze in cash flows, which lowers their profitability, finally they will switch from Sony...

Huh, brings back the old debate again, by the time PS3 are really selling in qty's PC's tech will be way superior, aldready in the gfx dept PS3 is lagging behind. It wouldnt be really enticing to buy a 600 USD console, which is outdated, and who no longer commands game devs loyalty.
 
I highly doubt the Wii will outsell the X360 or PS3 but I'm sure it'll make much better profits than the other too.
 
Aces170 said:
Huh, brings back the old debate again, by the time PS3 are really selling in qty's PC's tech will be way superior, already in the gfx dept PS3 is lagging behind. It wouldnt be really enticing to buy a 600 USD console, which is outdated, and who no longer commands game devs loyalty.
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this is not a debate or something..so plzz..no offenses meant whatsoever..me really cant debate due to not so high level of knowledge all the matter below is just my opinion and thinkin..

are u talkin about the current situation or the future.??means..isnt PS3 the most powerful console in terms of gfx and processing power in the current console wars..?and its known tht the PC will always beat the PS3 in the gfx department due to the latest technology anf gfx cards releasing every 6-8 months..so tht;s surely gonna happen but.i still think the PS3 will be sucessful cauz the price factor is very much important the PC3 isa full packed console and entertainment system for 600 $ but the new and better gfx cards then the PS3 will itself be like 600 $ ..so the total PC cost..will be too high compared to the PS3..and i think if some one prefers only gaming..he would rather spend 600 $ for a console instead of a 2000-3000 $ PC ..
 
Wii will definitely catch the x360. And thats min it will do. I think it will be the most sold current gen console after say 2-3 years. The price, Nintendo legacy and the way it is marketed by company and popularity it is getting from general public who has bought it and flooding internet forums/ youtube etc with the cool vids will keep the enthusiasm up.

I dont see PS3 catching any of these two consoles. Its late, its expensive and its not available in enough numbers.

People dont see VFM in long run as such. Right now PS3 is out of reach for many. Wii and Xbox is not. Its as simple as that.
 
faheem_m said:
this is not a debate or something..so plzz..no offenses meant whatsoever..me really cant debate due to not so high level of knowledge all the matter below is just my opinion and thinkin..
are u talkin about the current situation or the future.??means..isnt PS3 the most powerful console in terms of gfx and processing power in the current console wars..?and its known tht the PC will always beat the PS3 in the gfx department due to the latest technology anf gfx cards releasing every 6-8 months..so tht;s surely gonna happen but.i still think the PS3 will be sucessful cauz the price factor is very much important the PC3 isa full packed console and entertainment system for 600 $ but the new and better gfx cards then the PS3 will itself be like 600 $ ..so the total PC cost..will be too high compared to the PS3..and i think if some one prefers only gaming..he would rather spend 600 $ for a console instead of a 2000-3000 $ PC ..
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Nope not really, the nxt gen mid end cards frm both ATI as well as Nvidia would be as fast or faster then the N70 derivative of PS3, and a 1000$ PC should be suffice to give you a decent gaming rig nonetheless..

And the strong point which PS has are the game titles, but if the topic is true then many game devs will back out, like rockstar and few others did. Which aint a pretty picture at all. And as for an being an entertainment device PC can be that and much more...

And yeah I dont want to argue with this..
 
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