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greenmedic88 on 05 February 2012
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cookingyourmama said:
greenmedic88 said:
Blood_Tears said:
So are adjustments coming or is this site just leaving the numbers as they are until this next quarter shipments come in?

Good question. Unfortunately, no one who isn't directly responsible for tallying the numbers seems to know the criteria for making adjustments to the "official" numbers. Most of the adjustments are based upon additional information as it becomes available, often in harder to track or newer regions in which hardware is available. 

There does seem to be a discrepancy between SCE's official shipped vs. VGC's sold numbers (difference is too narrow) and another between MS' official shipped and VGC's sold numbers as well (difference seems a bit wide, barring the explanation of channel stuffing) for 2011.

Reposted from earlier in the thread:

In total for 2010 Microsoft shipped 12.1 million consoles, however they sold 13,378,231, Microsoft & retailers made a big mistake & undershipped for 2010 with the majority of that happening in Oct-Dec & it ate into their supply of consoles in the retail chain almost causing a sell out. To make up for this Microsoft had to replenish the retail chain by overshipping in 2011 & they shipped 14.9 million whilst selling 13,422,253.

When you combine the two years worth of sales you get 27 million shipped & 26,800,484 sold, which works out perfectly. Microsoft undershipped in 2010 & had to balance it out by overshipping in 2011.

For the Ps3 in 2010 Sony shipped 14.4 million consoles whilst selling 13,884,453, then in 2011 Sony shipped 14.1 million consoles whilst selling 14,059,943. In total for the last two years they've shipped 28.5 million & sold 27,944,396.

So you think that Microsoft selling 200,000 less then they've shipped = the xbox360 is undertracked whilst Sony selling 550,000 less then they've shipped = the Ps3 is overtracked????

I don't. The shipped vs sold over 2010-2011 make up for the discrepancies. The words undertracked or overtracked were never used by me.

Every time someone on here claims "undertracked" or "overtracked" it typically means they don't like the numbers, more to the point, they don't like that "their console" compared unfavorably, ie "lost." 

This is not the case here.

When you just look at the 2011 numbers alone without taking the low Xbox inventory at the end of 2010 and the higher inventory for the PS3, it looks like Sony hit close to a 100% sell through at a mere 40k units short, which is logistically near impossible (there would be no units on shelves at retail), and MS had over 1.5m units in retail/distribution channels, which is quite high (too many to fit on shelves; would be stacked in warehouses).