SCEA: increase of 130 percent of PS3 hardware sales for holiday season

[NJ5]

Jordahn said:

NJ5 said:
@Jordahn: I would certainly not agree with anyone spinning shipped numbers as a negative. However I didn't notice anyone doing that in this thread.

Perhaps spinning was not the correct term for what you did... It was more like changing the subject. Either way it wasn't a big deal, I was just pointing out that I agreed with johnsobas on his assessment of shipped vs sold numbers.

The positive thing I see in these news for Sony is the data which says the PS3 has improved 40% in sales over 2007 (basically what vgchartz says). That's a good thing. A bad thing is that holiday sales are lower than 2007, especially when price cuts aren't expected in the short term (some would disagree).

 

Johnsobas said...

"who cares about shipped numbers, sold numbers are what sets trends and shows consumer demand."

The trends that sold numbers set are increased shipped numbers from retailers which are what SONY reports.  This is consumer demand.  That is why shipped numbers are important (cares).  This is how he was spinning by discounting the positive shipped numbers reported by SONY because it actually shows an increase of consumer demand.  And I proved him incorrect it by pointing out the trend of the increasing PS3 demand.

Perhaps you're reading the "who cares" part too literally. Obviously shipped numbers count for something, just not as much as sold numbers.

I'm not a native English speaker, but when I see "who cares about A, B is the real deal" that doesn't tell me the person thinks A is totally worthless.