360 beat Wii this week in NA

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Sqrl said:

FishyJoe said:
I think one must keep in mind that sampling is a big issue with out of stock systems. There will be an uneven distribution of sales. So while one vendor might receive a big shipment, another may receive none. If enough of the vendors that received none are polled, it can skew the results significantly.

QFT

Sampling errors are definitely a bigger problem with sold out consoles.

True. And I imagine that software is even harder to estimate in these conditions (plus all the promotions, such as Toys R US selling loads of Wii software).

This holiday season will be very hard to track, thankfully all the financial reports for this quarter should be out in January, I suppose.