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TeddostheFireKing on 30 March 2011
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thismeintiel said:
TeddostheFireKing said:
thismeintiel said:
TeddostheFireKing said:

Sony will ship enough PS3's to beat their projections, they'll probably overship somewhat, but I doubt it'll be too much

360 should have a big shipment, VGChartz numbers were only 500K short of the shipment Microsoft had last quarter, so unless we have some seriously overtracked Xbox sales, then they should be shipping about an extra 500K 360's this quarter to replenish stock, so I expect to shipment gap to increase, but the actual gap to decrease

While MS may have had to ship an 500K, I would think that would really only make up for the shortages they had in Jan.  At the very most, MS and Sony would probably ship the same amount. 

@ bolded

So, that's like over a year Sony has been overshipping? 


I don't think they have been overshipping up to this point, but I do think they'd be williing to do it marginally to reach their forecasts

Well, I wasn't pointing you out, per se.  It's just that every financial report for the previous 4 or 5 quarters, there is always someone trying to say Sony has over shipped and stuffed the channels.  Usually the same people.  Of course, anyone with common sense would know that this is impossible to do for that long because stores are the ones who fill out the orders, not Sony.  Though, Sony can encourage stores to take more stock with price incentives, but only for one quarter or so. 

So, if you think it is only for this quarter, it is possible.  But personally, I doubt Sony really needs to overship/stuff.  The PS3 is in pretty high demand in EMEAA and Japan compared to the other 2 home consoles, while not doing too shabby in America, either.

I know what you mean on people saying overshipping though, some people say that every financial report (and your right it IS the same people)

well that's the thing, because the PS3 is in high demand in EMEAA, there are lot of markets and a lot of shops, if they encouraged them every 10th shop to take an extra PS3 this quarter to meet the shipping goal it would really help out and because there is only one extra PS3 per 10th shop its very difficult to notice the change in stock (well that would be my guess, you'd probably have to use every 3rd shop in reality but still :P)