theprof00 said:
it could mean a lot of things jadedx. It's not just consumers that buy kinect from stores, but ebayers and second markets that pick them up as well. Tack on to that fact is they have no real way of knowing unless those were all plugged into consoles, and let's face it. At least a quarter of these things are going to be xmas presents. So that's a dead end. Same can be said about any video game system/accessory coming out, so should we not count COD/Fable/WII sales since they can be bought by second sellers and because some will be under the tree till christmas? Really, all they can track is restocking orders, and there can be considerable problems with tracking that way. False, they can get information from chart-trak and NPD
Look, I'm not saying they're lying or making up numbers or anything like that. It's just that it's NEVER done, and it makes one look for possible explanations. There simply is no tracking possible at this level except restock. It has nothing to do with bias or fanboyism or anything like that. It's simply how it works. False For example, stores don't wait for supply to run out before they re-order. A store chain could have ordered 150k of them for the entire xmas season and then saw 100k of those disappear in 8 days. Obviously they would reorder right away, but that doesn't mean that the rest has reached the end user. Now dont sweat it. Don't get mad over the numbers. You never know. MS could come out and take that back, or even improve the numbers, who knows. Just don't take a "sold to consumers" report by sony,ms, or nintendo too seriously. Because its LITERALLY, never done. |
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