starcraft said:
Of course, in a consumer-based, competitive and high pubilicity environment I am highly skeptical of taking the word of ANY CEO at face value. The link you provided indicated NO evidence of any sell through to consumers, other than the writer's own (unsubstantiated) assertions. On the other hand, VGC and Pachter more recently have both offered evidence that contradicts YOUR assertions. And the CEO will not be canned for misleading the public, as that is all he did. He did not lie. Sony has indeed sold 2.5 million units to RETAILERS! |
Again, you continue to reinforce Point 3. The article qoutes Pachter as saying, "It's ahead of what I thought previously." This means it doesn't matter what Pachter had estimated before, as he is saying he was WRONG. As far as VGC is concerned, they are also making estimates. Ones that ioi admits uses controller data from previous consoles to come to those estimations. However, with the Move, there are just way too many variables to consider, so there's basically no way of knowing how accurate VGC is.
Why are you mentioning sell-through? Reinforcing Point 1. No one is talking about sell-through. And the CEO's are not misleading anyone, as ALL companies (even Nintendo and MS) report shipped numbers. Know why? Because those numbers are finite, not estimations, and are accurate. Like I said, I doubt anyone will be screaming "IT'S SHIPPED NOT SOLD!!" when MS releases their Kinect numbers.
@jneul
lol, I forgot to point out that those numbers are without Japan. Something tells me Japan is going to have very similar numbers to US and Canada. Actually, that brings up another point. That 1 mil shipped figure is reportedly only for the US and Canada, and does not include the whole of Americas.