360 Numbers don't add up!

[Diomedes1976]

Well ,first I do live in Europe ,I know more or less whats selling and whats not .Second ,we dont have any organization as NPD or media create that put toghether numbers from all the countries and presents them ,but thats not to say it is impossible to know how is selling something .There are data for individual countries as the UK and France ,and here and then you receive milestones as "1 millon DS sold in X country " .Plus ,Sony ,Nintendo and I suppose Microsoft know the numbers quite well and they make statements here and there .For example Microsoft claimed in July having shipped 1.3 million to Europe ,in september by X06 it claimed having sold 1.3 million ,and end november first days of december they claimed some 1.7 sold in Europe .That serves to calculate the amount sold per month quite well ,once you discount the launch . Plus ,Nintendo and Sony give data here and there about how much their plattforms sold compared to the rivals .The numbers more or less coincide .And ,for all the past year ,things were like 115 000 PS2 per week in all Europe against some 19 000 360 .....or if you wish per month some 460 000 PS2 against 76 000 X360 .That has been a pattern for all the year .Other milestones provided show in the UK the X360 is besides the PS2 ,DS and PSP in sales ,and here in Spain Nintendo just recently told it had already surpassed the pre-holiday X360 sales with some 100K consoles sold... True ,I dont have too much data for Christmas wich is a very strong period here for sales ,but seeing the Nintendo numbers I doubt highly that X360 could have sell more than half a million .Playstation 2 has still sold a lot more than X360 this christmas and PSP also beats X360 in all the countries .So if 55% of hardware sold has been Nintendo machines(1.5 million DS and 0.7 million Wii ) ,and the PS2 and PSP have outsold the X360 both then you can see the X360 sales cant be more than 500-600 K consoles sold by any measure .Add that to the 1.7 reported by Microsoft and you have 2.2-2.3 million here by end december .Its seen in the shops easily ,DS has been sold out in many stores ,also PS2 ,even the PSP has seen sales strong enough to threat a rupture of stocks in some shops ...but the X360 is in each and every shop you visit ,its space in those shops is reduced even having absorbed all the shelf space from the original Xbox ....well I dont have exact numbers but things dont look too good . By the own Microsoft numbers(1.3 in september when in NA it was around 3 million ,1.7 in november when in the US it was 3.78 ) Europe is consuming less than 50% of the X360 of the US ,while the Xbox sold in NA 15 million and in Europe 9 million ...so in fact it is selling worse than the original box . I saw a news a month ago saying Microsoft was preparing to launch in Korea ....I havent seen any confirmation of X360 shipping there but there you go ,maybe I am wrong .In any case has it has been already pointed once you add Australia ,Canada ,US ,EU and Japan you have covered nearly 95% or the market ...expecting those regions to fill the million gap between official reported numbers and hallucinogic Gates numbers is wishful thinking .Maybe I am wrong and X360 has seen a huge surge in sales here in Europe and there hastn been any sold out because Microsoft has pumped them out like crazy but I highly doubt it ...it remains to be proven .Last data is 1.7 million at end november .....and my guess is about 500-600 K sold for holidays and christmas shop season ..in any case never much more as Nintendo numbers point ..if 2.2 million has been 55% of the hardware sales and the X360 has to share the rest with PS2 ,PSP and GBA (PS2 and PSP outsell it clearly ) then half a million ,maybe a little more ,is a good guess and that being quite possitive .