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theprof00 on 09 January 2010
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Ninky Nonk said:
theprof00 said:
every time.

I thought it was strange too that there were 2.4 M or so units on shelves somewhere, but now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense. 360 really underperformed this season where every retailer probably thought they were going to break their previous year. So yeah, there probably is a huge stock pile in warehouses somewhere.


Not really a fair assumption to make since you have nothing to back it up. I disagree for the reasons that generally production line->consumer on most xboxes at the moment in the UK at least is around 2 months, check MFR dates of a sprinking of new xboxes and you will see that's roughly correct. The PS3 Slim sales boom occured in september onwards, it was obvious from the get go that sales were not going to be incredible for MS as opposed to xmas before from that time. My point in all this is, if there are 2.4 million consoles sitting around the average MFR date should be beginning of november!

Nothing to back what up exactly?

2.4M consoles is quite a lot to be in warehouse or in store. Ask anyone.

I know that I have no proof to say that stores expected it to sell more, but just going by the average estimation of people here and on the holiday season sales thread, it really underperformed compared to expectations.