Was MS Wrong When They Claimed The #1 Spot For HW Sales WW?

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Aj_habfan said:

pachoo5 said:
No, DirtyP2002, that is wrong. MS said over 66 million SOLD as in sold to consumers, not sold to retail. When MS says sold that is always what they mean. They say shipped when talking about sold to retailers.

When companies like Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo say SOLD, they almost always mean sold to retailers - it is especially obvious in this case.

Funnily enough in most cases in the past MS actually meant "SOLD" as "SOLD to the consumer" hence the confusion now, I think this time around they meant shipped though. So I can see why some people would think that it's a sold amount in this case, going by the past trends. They used to say "Kinect sold 10m" and it did, shipments were like 10.8 or something at the time.

Sony, however, always uses shipped numbers and labels them as sold.