First... I am no fan boy. I own neither system. I am a historian and I like statistics (the only math I like) so call me freaky if you want. But this is what I noticed.
Ok... So I was wondering about DS PSP sales by region and world. So I checked what a few of you linked to. And the numbers they provide just don't seem to add up.
Example:
PSP World 2005 - 15,030,000
DS World 2005 - 9,420,000
Well... wow. That seems to be a huge lead... until
I check the regionals and the PSP seems to always be behind the DS or barely ahead...
US 2005
PSP - 3,633,964
DS - 3,817,883
UK/Europe 2005
PSP- 5,020,000
DS - 4,100,000
Japan 2005
PSP - 4,200,000
DS - 5,700,000
Some basic math later I get...
World 2005
PSP - 12,853,964
DS - 13,617,883
Wow... That is a whole lot of discrepancy... now for the PSP you could say that other regions of the world not counted here could make it up... Latin America, Africa, Russia, Middle East, Antartica...
But the DS total given doesn't even add up to the number you get adding up regional totals given...
So I dig just a little bit and find this on the home section of the page under updates
6/13/2006 - When I first started this site, it was just a hobby site. Ever since joystiq.com linked my site as a source, the site has kinda taken off. Now other "main-stream" tech sites have picked up the so called "story". After seeing how such information can spark such heated debates I have decided to add a Discussion forum to the site.
So... where does this hobbiest get his information? Does a link from joystiq.com make it reliable information? I would say not on the face of a comparison of the figures the site itself gives... I wonder if we can get any site with accurate sales figures for the world and regions...
So just remember folks... information on the net that doesn't tell you where it came from could be anything... or nothing.
At the bottom of home it states...
"Most numbers are sited from NPD, Media Create, Famitsu, or Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft press releases/financial reports." But the numbers still just don't add up... I wonder if he posted some numbers from certain areas and then a world total from another without checking the data himself... once again same problem as above. After all all the big companies have an agenda...
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