DreamsCast on 09 January 2007
nickg said:
Even if the 10.4 million number was reached by consoles 'shipped' to retailers, by your accounting of sold, that leaves some 2 million consoles unsold in inventory somewhere.
I don't doubt there's inventory in the world, but that much? Is there something wrong with everyone's just in time inventory? Would retailers carry that much stock? It's not like it's not moving. We know it is moving.
The number of sold as of December, I bet is 9 million something.
Otherwise, we're not going to see any shipments from Microsoft in January, if there's 2 million units unsold out there.
Well I think scenes of a couple of hundred X360s in shops are not uncommon. How many shops in North America alone, 5000? There's a million alone. Same with UK, same with the rest of Europe, France, Australia.
Plus units being shipped as we speak, plus units in warehouses, shop stores etc etc. 2 million unsold units is not that difficult to imagine, or indeed uncommon. There must be something like 6-7 million unsold PSPs if you look into it.
Also, do shipped units include replacements / refurbishments? Display units, promotional units?
