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Seece on 26 January 2015
MoHasanie said:
But where are 360's still selling?!

Developing countries.



 

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OdinHades on 26 January 2015

Can't we just agree on a tie for last generation? Who gives two shits about that small difference? It's getting quite tiring.



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teigaga on 26 January 2015

PS3 is gonna win the race regardless of whether its 2nd or 3rd atm



Aeolus451 on 26 January 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Aeolus451 said:
Intrinsic said:
Am I the only one that thinks there's a reason Microsoft doesn't just give us XB1 shipped numbers? I'm not even asking for sold numbers, they should just give shipped instead of this Xbox family crap they are doing.


I rather they just disclose the relevent info. Shipped to, OS in stores and sold to consumer.

That's not really feasible though. They know how many they've shipped. It's their job to ship them so they can't possibly not know. They can't know how many have been sold to consumers though. To get that information they'd need stores to constantly update them which just isn't really possible. They can make estimates sure, but why use estimates that could be quite a bit off when you can give shipment numbers which you know are 100% accurate?

They would know if there were consoles not selling in stores and in different countries. They track shipped to, overstock and sold to. It's the only way to make adjustments to shipping output to different locations. You can't ship a fixed amount of merchandise to everywhere without adjusting it otherwise certain locations would end up with lots of overstock. Just shipped to numbers is not accurate at all. They could have a lot of overstock in certain markets where they thought they would of done better. 



MoHasanie on 26 January 2015
Seece said:
MoHasanie said:
But where are 360's still selling?!

Developing countries.

Must be. Those are the only regions VGC can't track.



    

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MoHasanie on 26 January 2015
teigaga said:

PS3 is gonna win the race regardless of whether its 2nd or 3rd atm

People have been saying this for years. I'm not saying its not true, but I'm starting to doubt iif t will ever happen. 



    

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psrock on 26 January 2015

You don't think there could be 3 million consoles out there for two consoles. I'll be more worried by the fact MS hasn't announced 10 million sold to consumers yet for the one.



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Seece on 26 January 2015
psrock said:
You don't think there could be 3 million consoles out there for two consoles. I'll be more worried by the fact MS hasn't announced 10 million sold to consumers yet for the one.

Nobody is worried about that psrock. (They won't announce it either).

And no I don't, XB1 I admit can be high, not 360, not at this point.



 

binary solo on 26 January 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
binary solo said:

Freudian slip? LoL. if you want to make sure there is no accidental or deliberate misinterpretation you should write "...for XB1 and a dying 360."

Anyway, 3.3M on shelves across both systems is not as big a discrepancy as it looks. I wouldn't be surprised if Xb one had 1.5 million on shelves at present. That's about the maximum extent of what I think might be in the retail channels so for a what's possible analysis I think you can say 1.5M of that 3.3M is Xb one.

So that leaves 1.8M for 360, I agree that's too much, but not so much as to be an outrageous discrepancy. Even for a dying system 1 million in the retail channel is within the bounds of possibility, considering all the markets and retail outlets they need to have covered. 360 is still being actively marketed, indeed here it's probably being marketed more strongly than XB one. All the boxing day sale ads were PS4 and Xbox 360 for instance, no Xb one boxing day promotions. In terms of what's possible I think 800K-1 million on shelves is theoretically possible. MS could, for instance, have decided to ship out half a year's worth of projected 360 sales. And if MS is looking to kill off 360 manufacturing this year they might want to get end of life inventory out into the retail channels sooner rather than later.  

360 could be, IMO, up to 1 million undertracked, which is only 1.16% error. but even at 1.5M it's still only a 1.74% error. If it wasn't for the fact that this error rate is the difference between being ahead of PS3 and being behind PS3 would this thread actually exist? Or would we say, actually VGC's LTD tracking of 360 isn't too bad. IMO, objectively speaking if the LTD for a console on VGC is within 2% of actual sales (which no one knows with 100% accuracy) that is good enough for all practical purposes.

Most of the current 360 sales and marketing is in the US though, one country doesn't need that much stock. Besides I remember people claiming 400k on shelves was way too much for the Wii U, because of its low sales, earlier in the year. Of course I disagree and think 400k was pretty reasonable, but considering the 360 is selling less than the Wii U it is logical that retailers would order less stock right? So the stock levels would be more likely to around the 400k level than the 800k-1m level.

Besides that 1.5m for Xbox One really does seem a lot. This is the stock levels at the end of December we are talking about, right after all of their sales and deals and all the xmas shopping. Stock on shelves would probably be at their lowest at that point of the year.

It's about what's possible. No one knows stock inventory absolutely and as far as we know no one knows sell through absolutely. Until MS comes out and says X.Y million sell through it's all largely guess work. Is it possible for 1.5M Xb one's to be on shop shelves? Yes, I think that's possible. Is it possible that there's less than that? Yes it's possible. I don't think it's likely there's more than 1.5 million on shelves. For the purposes of assessing the tracking performance of VGC it would seem that the curernt Xb one LTD is pretty good, perhaps a little over tracked, probably not undertracked. Potentially dead on to within just a few thousand units. 

In terms of 360 LTD, being less than 2% out (undertracked) is objectively pretty good. As I said, the only reason people are making a thing about this level of potential undertracking is becuase it's the difference between 2nd and 3rd for gen 7. In 5 year's time if PS4 is at 80 million and Xb one is at 35 million will people really get animated about Xb one being 1 million undertracked (or over tracked)? 36 (or 34) million vs 35 million is neither here nor there in terms of Xb one's objective performance for the generation. And 84.5M vs 86M is also neither here nor there in terms of 360's objective performance for gen 7.



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SWORDF1SH on 26 January 2015
DJEVOLVE said:
SWORDF1SH said:

Annnnd you've derailed the thread.

Nice one!

The thread is about xbox numbers, putting Xbox 360 in second place is about it's numbers and has everything to do with the thread, However your post about derailing the thread is actually the post to do so.

NICE ONE!


If you can't see it then I can't convince you. Didn't think the thread was about the PS3 at all but about Xbox numbers.

Even if it was about PS3 vs 360 he put his OPINION over as FACT and in antagonising way to flame.

What he did is make the thread about PS and Xbox. Now instead of people talking about the Xbox numbers, which is what the thread is about, they are arguing over PS vs Xbox.

That my friend is derailing.

Notice how my "derailing" comment didn't sway the whole nature of the thread!