MikeB on 03 September 2009
@ ioi
Overtracking and undertracking fluctuate with regard to Japan/US, but for the rest of the world the 360 is usually well overtracked and the PS3 significantly undertracked." is not what I'd consider constructive. It sounds like a fanboy wanting PS3 sales to be higher than they are.
Yes, I think it is. Everytime I compared the official figures, the PS3 was according to VGChartz more in stock than the 360. It wasn't like one time the PS3 and then the 360.
A dealer told me they get fewer PS3s at a time as it requires more space to store them. I think that's not bad reasoning at all and now with smaller PS3 slim boxes they are stocking more PS3s at a time.
23.8 million (sold to retail, end of June) - 22.7 million (sold to consumers according to VC, 4th of July)
31.4 million (sold to retail, end of June) - 30.8 million (sold to consumers according to VC, 4th of July)
So ~1.1 million PS3s at retail.
So ~0.6 million 360s at retail.
So these figures would suggest the exact opposite. I think it's healthy there's discussion with regard to this. And you shouldn't get upset, but the burden of proof to explain this is of course on you (something of course you have chosen for with this website).
