Or it could just be over-stocked in stores.....Shipped doesn't always mean sold.
If you go into any shop your see lots of PS3's just sitting on the shelves. If these figures are right they would not be there as it indicates demand would have to be a lot higher. 2m higher. That would have effect on stores numbers which would be noticable. The same goes for VGC tracking. If it was higher it would be noticable to the stores who give data to the site. The fact it hasen't again just shows demand is not as high as it was. In my view that is all that has happened. A fair few months agao PS3 had a slight problem getting stock in. As they cramped up production demand fell, hence why you see the numbers.
As for the whole VGC doesn't track right because of NPD has it higher thing. If you actually look at the NPD/VGC numbers your see for the past 12 months PS3 has been over-tracked 9 times. Last month it was higher because it was 5 weeks data not 4 as is normally the case. There have been a few times when PS3 has been over-tracked by 100k this year. Yet you don't hear people mentioning those times, i wonder why?
