You're stating they don't mesh based on a 3 year old ratio. You're piling current sellthrough estimates on to a shipment figure from back when the console had only released in 13 markets for about 7 months. In reality what you're doing isn't much different from VGC's methodology (ie: guesswork based on public sources with some personal ballparking). And then you try tried to sideline things with statements about non-existent 3rd part estimates and magic IR to shipment ceilings and this bizarre burden of proof strawman.
That's all your problem, not mine. You can't even explain your figures and you're claiming this one's impossible. And now it turns out it's probably not even from VGC.
I like how you ignore half my post and sources of data and then put words in my mouth (when did I call this set of data impossible or that my post is based entirely on ratio? Pretty sure I've said unlikely for sold-through throughout this thread).
Also, MS switched to MAU a little under 2 years ago, not 3. They started reporting hardware revenue around the end of Q3 or 4 of FY2015.
But hey, you do you. Apparently you find it easy to believe that MS had a surge in markets that aren't reported on and that MS doesn't generally care about and I just don't.
You keep defending whatever the fuck hill this is on now. We all know the data is fake.