Is This How MS Intends To Become #1?

[Dodece]

Let me get the gist of this argument. Tracking sales of cross promotion bundled systems is wrong, and distributors are not considered to be consumers. Excuse me while I laugh my ass off. This isn't new this has always been the way things have been. At least for this generation. Every manufacturer sells to distributors, because distributors allow for truly global sales of their products. No company tracks beyond the place of sale, because they have no obligation beyond the point of sale. The market where the sale takes place is where the sale is going to be reported. Every manufacturer will account in this fashion.

Ironically sales to distributors do not fundamentally function differently from local sales, because the distributor that buys systems to sell in small markets is also going to buy software for export to those markets. So even if a console is in say Argentina the purchases that accompany that console will still be made in the market of origin. So you really should think of those consoles as still being in the region where they were purchased.

On to the matter of cross bundled hardware. Really Microsoft doing this is detestable. What of Sony and all of the cross promotion sales they did with movies and television sets. I am sorry, but as far as this goes this generation. The worst culprit is Sony. Microsoft would come next, and then you would get Nintendo. Well for the obvious reason that they have nothing to cross promote with. So just about every console sale by Nintendo in the current generation was stand alone.

Anyway why would anyone think that Sony and Nintendo aren't counting distributor sales. They obviously must be doing exactly that. Otherwise their shipped/sold numbers would have a much larger margin. Perhaps five to even six million units by this point in a generation if distributor sales weren't being counted. The only truly interesting thing in this thread is a distributor sale by Microsoft was worthy of note. I am kind of curious as to which player is actually dominating in the South America region. This may become more important over time.