What I wanna know is why were initial hardware predictions so far off?! When I mean far off, I dont mean by a few %, I mean:
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=4917
“We project that September sales worldwide will be around double that of August - around 600,000 units.”
- Week 1 will nearly outdo the ENTIRE PROJECTED MONTH
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2551780
"PS3 is up about 85% this week (~70k) - slims available but limited to only some retailers and in limited quantities - next week should be 90-100k in the Americas with the slim being fully available everywhere"
- Taking the high end of this estimate, still 25% off!
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2557196
“I'd say 50k [week 1 in Japan] is a reasonable estimate, 100k seems a little high to me but who knows?”
-50k week 1 in Japan is INCREDIBLY far off from 150k. Hell, even 100k is!
So what gives? Why were all of these predictions so bad?
