gergroy said:
snfr said:
So we already have these stupid discussions about shipment numbers now? Hell, guys... are you serious?
"Shipped" means "sold to retail", yes. But a company can't ship as much as they want, especially not every single quarter again and again. They ship if there is demand for it. These numbers are accurate, simply because companies can't lie about their numbers in financial reports. The numbers we have on VGChartz, well, you know there are adjustments from time to time. My point here is not to downplay VGC numbers, but some people act like shipment numbers can't be trusted at all (or at least, less than VGC's numbers). I trust VGC's numbers, but they are surely not more reliable than shipment numbers.
End of story.
OT:
Great numbers for everyone so far! Good to see all consoles doing well.
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not really end of story. You can overstuff the retail channel, Microsoft has been guilty of this on several holiday periods. As evidenced by the fact that they barely shipped a million units the next quarts, but still sold multi million units to customers.
Retailers have warehouses that they can store stuff, it happens.
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Sure, this can happen. But a company can't overstuff every quarter. As you said, if someone oversuffs the retail channel, then you'll see it in the following shipment numbers. And you probably also know that we have these stupid "Sony is overshipping" or "Sony is stuffing the channels" threads every quarter. And this is just nonsense because a company can't do that every quarter (but I already said this in my post above).
But now: end of story 
