Stromprophet on 15 January 2007
sharky said:
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.
"Even Wronger" Clearly I'm talking to a Genius. Nice English.
No. M$ did not use planes last year to NA. At least not for the launch period. Anyone who was looking for a 360 last Christmas (me for instance). Knows there was only 2 shipments. That's all. There was the launch shipment, and another one about 10 days before Christmas.
Isn't this common knowledge to anyone who was looking for a 360? I remember searching for one, and there was only 1 shipment after launch before Christmas, and it was by boat, not planes. If it was by planes it would have been sporadic. As it was it was around December 11th-December 15th and then there wasn't anymore new units shipped in till January.
I didn't imply they had all their units in the last week. I said there was a large shipment. If you look at the launch shipment it was 200k units, and every BestBuy had a minimum of 26 at launch. On December 31st Bestbuy ran another ad, advertising a minumum of 60 PS3s per store. Just saying, by comparison, a large shipment. Not even sure what the total was, but it was a lot.
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