Aaron Greenburg "LOL's" at VGChartz KINECT Sales Report on his Twitter!!!

[heruamon]

theprof00 said:

heruamon said:

Do you really think wholesalers have no methods of tracking sales of product at retail, in general?

As for this specific case, one easy way would be restocking orders from retailers.  M$ knows how many were shipped, so if Retailers are clamoring for follow-on orders to be filled faster...that's probably a clue.  Every been to a best buy, and they could tell you which nearby stores had the item sold out at the store you're at...that might be a clue.

So your argument is that MS has at least the same tracking capacity as vgchartz doe, and therefore has been tracking than vgc does.

Restocking has no implication on sales.

Shipments do not directly go to each store (surprisingly /sarcasm) they go to a warehouse or distributor. Once the product leaves the MS manufactory, they have no idea, nor do they care, what happens to them. All they care about is sending out more shipments and selling them.

Restocking has no implication on sales.

Wait...are you telling me that if a retailer order doubles the initial launch order, that is NOT indicative of retail sales?