MSFT DecQtr: $21bn rev, $6.6bn profit, 360: 8.2m shipped, Kinect Install base 18m

[Lafiel]

Seece said:

Lafiel said:

kowenicki said:
Its interesting that retailers ordered 200k systems in the first week of Jan when they couldn't move for stock isn't it?

you conclude that from Ballmer's "over 66million" ?

Don't you think Ballmer just might have assumed so from preliminary numbers, which showed they "could" be over 66m, but in the end when all the calculations were done they weren't  ?

They knew exactly how many 360's went out the door before Dec 31st.

It's either them adding early Jan shipments, or a combo of both rounding and shipments.

And retailers can usually return parts of their overstock within a certain time frame (depending on what contract they signed when they ordered the consoles).