goddog said:
theonewhoisme said:
goddog said:
theonewhoisme said:
goddog said:
theonewhoisme said:
VG had the 360 sales at about 300k less then the amount MS said they shipped, and then a month or so later (not sure when just heard about it) they add 1 million to the 360 sales because of under tracking 4 years ago or something, so if they added it at any point before the shipped numbers for 360 came in, VG would have shown 700k more 360s sold then MS said were shipped (even if it sold that much in a month that would mean there are no 360s left in stores at all), and there were no reported shortages for 360s, where there were reported shortages of ps3s which had 2 million more shipped then VG had sold, which means VG chartz numbers are way off and inconsistent, as for the date of the report http://scrawlfx.com/2010/04/xbox-360-reaches-40-million-sold the article says april 23
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thats for last 3rd quarter (srd q 2010) which ends for MS on march 30th sells through at the time on VGC are listed at 39.119k shipping from MS at 40.2k seems like a fair gap for me.
april 23 is when it was reported not when the figures are for.
year for MS ends in june which is the Q i thought you were talking about earlier, hence why i mentioned they might be running it dry to make next years shipments look better. got another one for me
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How do you know exactly what VG had it at back then, I remember it being .3 million or at least under a million, and even still your forgetting that they under-tracked it by 1 million 4 years ago and then added it a few months later, so thats still next to none in stores, when ps3 had the shortages with 2 million (plus the extra month) apparently in stores, so yeah anyway you look at it VG is wrong, they seem to be giving 360 more sales then it has and ignoring alot of ps3 sales
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vgc has an adjustments thread, please find it in there if you would. i looked up your number, and traced it. i do not remember the point in time your talking about, where it was over/under by 300k i do recal a major adjust ment for all three consoles this summer do to under tracking across the board around year end for ms (june)
edit there were ps3 shortages this year? hmm i dont remember that. last year yes lots of them sporadically all year, but this year?
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maybe I'm thinking of the wrong fiscal report, the one that had ps3 behind by 2 mil and it got alot of press, I remember there being ps3 shortages around that time too, and again even with all you said I'm not seeing how VG chartz is accurate, they seem to be greatly biased towards the 360, I'm pretty sure next shipped numbers we get from MS and Sony will have a difference of 4-5 million at the most, instead of the 6-7 VG chartz has, when that happens would you maintain that Sony is over shipping again, for the 3rd or 4th time according to VG chartz
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the difference of two to three million is from the q ending in june, we are days away from the next quarter ending, a quarter in which MS launched a new sku, and most likely shipped mass volumes of consoles. if you are right about VGC we would see it in octobers report from sony with say 5 million ps3s on shelves according to vgc. honestly i can see 2 million or 3 million on shelves, there was appoint in 07 when the 360 had close to 3.5 million on shelves after christmas. MS shipping results reflected this by slowing down for half a year.
ill also reiterate i do not remember PS3 shortages this year. any mention of it by sony? they normally mention these things. a because it means they are selling better then expected or b because its nab explanation for missing targets if there are manufacturing difficulties
october will be a very telling month of reports for our current quarter,
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