Kasz216 said:
MikeB said:
Kasz216 said:
MikeB said:
MikeB said:
koffieboon said:
MikeB said:
In the coming months Sony and Microsoft will announce how many XBox 360s and PS3s have been sold to retailers worldwide until the end of March 2010.
I was wondering which console has fewer units in stock at retail at the moment, so this poll may help provide some insight with regard to future 'sold to retail' comparisons.
Various times in the past it was claimed the bigger boxed fat PS3 had about 1 million more units on the shelves than 360s, which sounded weird to me (a lot of extra needed shelf /storage space in comparison to the 360).
In my area, Groningen, the Netherlands shops are currently flooded by especially cheap XBox 360 arcade units while there are PS3 shortages.
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That comparison can only be made when both Sony and Microsoft use the same definition of shipped units. We know both are to retail, but it isn't clear which units are included into that total and whether one or both include things like replacement or demo units.
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If we assume this, we can easily assume Microsoft wins with regard to replacement units...
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Seriously replacement units are not counted as extra "hardware sales" to retail, they are replaced for free.
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Actually Sony may counted that as "shipped." They don't report "Hardware sales" they report shipped... and there numbers don't match up to any major source.
Something is different in the way Sony counts it's numbers.
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Actually they match up well and to requote myself from earlier within this thread:
"That was the case in the past.
Regarding PS3 sales:
"Unit Sales of Hardware (since April 2006)"
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps3_sale_e.html
In the past regarding PS1 sales:
"PlayStation® Cumulative Production Shipments of Hardware (Unit: million)"
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps_e.html "
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How do you figure and match up well with what?
They had 33.5 million shipped at the End of Q3. Vgchartz had 31 million. I mean this is why you started that thread in the first place right?
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How does this not make any sense? End of Q3 for last fiscal year is Dec '09. How is a 2.5 mil (I believe the norm is 1.5 - 2 mil) difference around the holidays, a time when companies push out more units for the higher demand strange to you? Some were using this to imply VGC as wrong (though no tracker is 100% accurate), but you are looking at it in the reverse to say Sony is wrong or playing with their numbers. In doing so, you are no better than the ones who pointed the blame at VGC.
And, if I'm not mistaken, MS had about the same difference in shipped to sold. Does that mean they are playing with their numbers, as well?
