Alby_da_Wolf on 13 January 2012
| morpheusx said: MS has always used sold to customers as their measurement. Why would they all of a sudden change? If they declared number 1 WW they mean sold to consumers and would have the numbers and research to back it up if needed. I haven't seen anything from Sony that disputes or states otherwise either and they would if they had the numbers just like they did when they tried to release propaganda numbers last year on how Move outsold Kinect by not only using shipped numbers but also counting the number of wands. |
Neither end users nor retailers have any obligation to communicate sales from the latter to the former to MS, so MS can just collect as many sample data as possible and make an estimate of those numbers, like VGC, although as besides polling shops and cross checking with other trackers, MS has also orders and shipping data available, it can most probably estimate its own numbers more precisely, but not the competitors' ones.
