sharky on 15 January 2007
Stromprophet said:
Before you even pull out the differences between what Sony says is shipped and M$ interpretation of shipped.
SCEA’s Senior VP of Marketing, Peter Dille
"GI: Now you said its 2 million worldwide sold in?
Dille: It’s 1 million in North America. What we’re not talking about today is the Japanese numbers, but we will be announcing those soon in the Sony announcement that will come out of Japan.
GI: “Sold in†means the retailers have the units, correct?
Dille: Correct. What the sell-in number refers to is that we’ve shipped it, we’ve sold it to retail, and the fact that we got to a million was possible because we were air shipping these products in. If we had gone with a boat, there was no way we would have gone to a million. So we’re not playing games with the numbers. These were sold into retail, and you can image the retailer’s incentive: If they’re shipped on a plane, they can go up onto the shelves as quickly as possible. And really, as soon as they’re getting there, they’re evaporating. There’s a tremendous demand."
Here it is. Notice he asks point blank. "Sold in" means retailers have the units, correct? Response: "Correct"
It's a Sony PS lackey. A sony PR lackey stood next to Motorstorm and said it was 1080P 60FPS a couple weeks ago too, then another Sony guy said the same thing then people took it on the internet and ran with it. It was patently untrue. Motorstorm is 720P 30 FPS.
Planes are nothing new MS used them for 360 launch too. Dont act like Sony invented it. They do that in the first weeks when supply is short, but later they use boat becuase it's much cheaper.
You're claiming one week for all Sony's units..I'm saying bunk. Every store would not get them within a week. Anyway it doesn't matter. Since PS3 sold out until recently, if what the guy said was true then it should have showed a million sold or pretty close. There's no such thing as "store shelves for a PS3" It didn't.
What the Sony PS guy probably meant with his response was, every shipped is sold to a retailer. Not "on a retail shelf"
EVERY CONSOLE SHIPPED NUMBER LAGS THE NPD NUMBER BY A GOOD AMOUNT. ONE MILLION SHIPPED ON ~750k sold is NORMAL for EVERY COMPANY. That's microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Please stop trying to change the rules just for Sony.
Why dont I sit here and go, well, it cant possibly be right that MS sold 600k 360's last year, because they announced 1.5m shipped, and we know Japan only sold 100k, so that leaves 1.4 m and we know it doesn't seel as many in EU, so it must have had 1m in USA and I dont care what NPD says.
But I dont do that because it would be stupid.
If you are right, as I said, PS3 should have a monster January. It actually might have a pretty decent one. But it doesn't matter, because those will be NPD numbers which are fine. What will be funny is I dount it even hits a mil NPD AFTER next month, which means you are even wronger.
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