PS3 14.48 last week and now 14.47... DON'T UNDERSTAND...?

[souixan]

Linkzmax said:

Magera said:

Kasz216 said:

Eh, I would never trust a company who adjusts it's data just to make it seem like they were right all year rather then offer a simple and honest "my bad".

 

 Wow, that's just retarded.

Way to take it out of context.  Kasz simply means for example that a company reports 600k for month 1, then during month 2 they realize they overtracked by 50k.  So instead of reporting 500k during month 2 they report 450k.  This company would be less trustworthy than a company that intially reports 600k for month 1, then adjusts the amount to 550k, and reports 500k for month 2.

 

VGC certainly does the latter, though it's up in the air as to how NPD handles corrections.  I'm inclined to believe that they do not adjust future months, but instead release corrections to paid customers only.

 

@souixan
Nintendo always has reported to retailers, it's just due to Wii's being nearly sold out WW for so long the numbers were very close.  Also, the difference in shipped and sold can most likely be attributed to the often proclaimed and also often denied stockpiling.

Almost every hardware company stockpiles, they absolutely have too in order to have replacement units and holiday units for the surge that inevitably comes.(especially if you have high sales all year and stock doesn't really build.) I think they don't report those at all though as they aren't shipped at all yet they're, as the name suggest, stock piled.