Xbox 360 tops Wii and PS3 for 1st time in yearly global sales

[thismeintiel]

Nsanity said:

thismeintiel said:

Hyruken said:
What I have learned from this is that old "wait for shipments that will show who won" saying has now died. It is now "wait three months for more data and we will see who won".
And people once more taking vgc numbers serious like they are official numbers.
I'm with gaf on this one the only numbers you can trust are official release numbers given to shareholders.
And based on those 360 won the year.

No one is questioning whether 360 won in shipments, you can't deny the numbers.  However, the question is who won in sales to consumer.  In my opinion, its pretty obvious that the PS3 did.  All you have to do is remember MS shipped ~1M more units than they normally do in Q1 2011 to make up for short supply in the channel at the end of 2010.  Now if you took that away from this year's shipment numbers the 360 would have shipped more like ~13.9 million instead of 14.9 million.  In other words, if MS hadn't underestimated 360 demand for Dec 2010 and shipped enough that year, the PS3 would have won both shipped AND sold in 2011.

People want cold hard facts not biased opinions.

What I stated above is cold hard fact.  The fact remains that MS had to ship ~1 million more than they usually do because of low supply in the channel at the end of 2010.  MS even announced these shortages.  Now if they had gotten that 1 million out in 2010, instead of early 2011, MS shipment numbers would be ~1 million less than they are now.  Again, that is fact.  You can choose to ignore it or you can choose to except it, its up to you.