Official: 360 vs PS3 gap now 2.88m

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Damnyouall said:

psrock said:

WarmachineX said:

too bad shipping doesn't equal sales.

It does for Sony, MS and Nintendo

That may be the most intelligent thing I have ever read on vgchartz. Shipped means sold to retailers (and other resellers). Sony, MS and Nintendo have the profits in their bank accounts. Those consoles can not be returned.  Whatever happens, they will eventually be sold to consumers. They will not end up back in their maker's production facilities by some magical time warp.

Now if some maker had millions of unshipped consoles in a warehouse, that would be awful. But shipped is very good. The more you know.

Are you mad? If retailers can't sell the product they have the right for refunds. Otherwise how do you think Gamestop and other stores would stay in bussnies when they cant sell all the consoles or if consoles are dropped in price? Sell at a loss? Give out consoles? No they send them back or get some money back from the supplier. Else, no company could stay in bussnies. They don't get every cent back of course or the suppliers wouldn't stay in bussnies since overshipping will happen. But to think that a shipped console = sold is really oversimplifying things since then most retailers would understock, else they would be at a chance for a loss.