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December 4, 2001 Link to this post
Playing with numbers
You've gotta love statistics - even when everyone uses the same numbers, they look different. IGN GameCube (in an ironically-titled article called 'The Numbers Don't Lie') is reporting that in the week following the release of the GameCube, the GC outsold the Xbox 469,000 to 186,000 units. (Halo, with 97,000 units, was nearly tripled by Luigi's Mansion, at 257,000 units.) IGN Xbox, on the other hand, points out that the Xbox had a 3-day headstart on sales... and its total sales up to the 24th (the same ending date as cube.ign.com is using) are 556,000 units. This jibes nicely with Rampancy.net's numbers - they reported last week that CSFB (the same firm IGN got numbers from) published a report showing Microsoft sold 370,000 units in the first 2 days - 370,000 plus 186,000 equals 556,000. (This also suggests that Halo's total sales in the first 10 days are closer to 275,000 units, since 176,000 sold in the first weekend.) Thanks to No7orious for noticing this discrepancy first. (Louis Wu 16:14:55 UTC)
