| enrageorange said:
GT5 shipped 6.4mil and was at at 5.1mil sold. Considering Kinect Adventures was at 8mil shipped and 7.1mil sold at the end of the holidays and there were plenty of kinect shortages in at least the Americas while there were no GT5 shortages. I think its safe to say its undertracked by a max of 300-400k or kinect adventures is massively undertracked as well. The large shipment numbers are probably because the actual sales were approaching the 5.5mil initial shipment or w.e it was and european retailers got stocked up expecting the great sales to continue. Just by looking at the PAL charts we can also see that while GT5 is doing good its already behind Black Ops ps3 and fifa ps3 almost everywhere in Europe. It will be easy enough to know in future months if its extremly undertracked. If a few months from now there is another big shipment increase then it was indeed massively undertracked if not then we won't have any way of telling. |
Most probably, as I wrote, basing ourselves on the sold to users/shipped ratio, GT5 end user sales are correctly tracked in America and Japan and undertracked in EMEAA. Kinect could suffer from the exact opposite, correctly tracked in EMEAA and Japan and undertracked in America (and maybe UK too). Anyway, even applying a very unfavourable sold/shippd ratio compared to America and Japan, minimum undertracking for GT5 could be more than 500k. Considering the ratio slightly worse than America the result is 600k or more undertracked.
