NPD Dec: X360 #1, 1.7m, 900k - 1m Wii, PS3

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greenmedic88 said:

crissindahouse said:

are the xbox 360s students got for buying a windows pc included in the vgc numbers? or could this be the reason for microsofts 66m announcement?

and if the numbrs are included, how did vgc calculate them? wasn't the console for free for the students?

 

and there are many cooperations microsoft did with other companies like getting a 360 for 80€ extra if you recommend a friend a pay-tv subscription here in germany for example. are these consoles included? i mean i would get the console directly from the pay-tv station not sure how vgc will know these numbers.

Those numbers should all be included within the shipped totals for 2011.

Free/promotional, whatever; they still count as units produced and shipped from factories. These are numbers that are actually disclosed by the manufacturers themselves and as such, should be taken as fact, running the basic assumption that none of them are deliberately sending out false information to the stock market.

Whether these also count as "sold" is something you'd have to as Jacob, Bret or any of the guys who actually process the numbers for VGC. 

I believe it was confirmed in June's NPD article that at least the 360's from the "Back To School" giveaway were included with NPD's numbers.  Though, I don't think those have any effect on Dec, as the sale was over.