What is crazy about people who run to the fake sales numbers at vgchartz.com is how it obvious they don't bother to think if the made up numbers they reading even make sense.
The twenty year old Xbox fan, ioi, who created his little fake sales site got banned from neogaf back in the first year of the Xbox 360 for doing such a bad job making up ridiculously inflated sales numbers for Microsoft. But at least with the RRoD fiasco leading to massive amounts of duplicate consoles, Microsoft was putting out shipment numbers regularly(even if they really were claiming they were actual sales).
With the Xbox One not having the luxury of the RRoD fiasco, Microsoft has been completely silent on worldwide sales. That has given the little kid at vgchartz free reign to go nuts with his fake Xbox One installed base numbers. At least with the Xbox 360 when Microsoft would come out with new shipment numbers, ioi would have to scramble to 'adjust' his fake sales numbers down below the known shipment numbers.
Here's an exercise for people who don't have access to the actual retail sales in Europe and the US:
* Take the know lifetime NPD sales data for the Xbox One
* Subtract it from the fake vgchartz 35 million(or whatever it currently is)
* Subtract the Xbox One Japan sales next. LOL
* That is how many consoles you have to left to account for
Anyone honestly looking at the absurdity of the fake vgchartz Xbox One 'sales' numbers should already have alarm bells going off.
The PS4 has been outselling the Xbox One in Europe in the 6-1 range everywhere except the UK since launch.
Ok, what about Brazil, South Africa, China?
Yeah, not even remotely close enough to reach the vgchartz 'sales' numbers.
Now do the same for the PS4.
You are left with the absurd suggestion that the Xbox One is selling millions of consoles outside of the three major console regions: Japan, the US, and Europe. Of your average fanboy isn't going to bother or the desire to do that simple exercise.
The Xbox One is somewhere in the >25 <30 million range. Which is roughly the same rate the first Xbox sold taking into account the Xbox One has sold for a little bit longer.
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