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slowmo on 07 January 2010
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DirtyP2002 said:
Seece said:
39+ is higher than I expected. and I don't buy that they are clearing inventory ... 9 months before a potential release date? possibly 11 ....? nah.


true story.

Don't get me worng, VGC did an awesome job with the PS3 numbers. Probably the biggest success for VGC ever. Now it looks like they undertracked the XBox 360 a bit.

Last financial results (Q1 2010) VGC underestimated the Xbox 360 shipments by 200k and did not adjusted anything. It is understandable, because 200k is not that big deal.
Now it looks like there are 2.5 million consoles @ retail 2 weeks after xmas... Please notice that Steve Ballmer said "more than 39 million Xbox 360s" Even with the one week of data missing there might be like 2.2 million consoles at retail according to VGC.

the new release date for the speculated SKU (we don't even know if there will be a new SKU at all! This is just a guess made be TheSource.) is 10 months away... why should they clean inventory in January for a holiday release?

I think the Xbox360 might be undertracked by 400k - 500k units.


No point worrying over numbers, if there are big adjustments that need to be made then they'll happen eventually.  I think the 360 has been undertracked in others but time will tell.  In fairness the same thing was said about the PS3 last year and that got adjusted if I remember correctly. 

The numbers are definately shipped though as there is no way the site is millions out.