| Darth Tigris said: Who won? Whoever you feel, because many of you will either latch on to whatever source supports your position or even create your own truth. Such is the nature of fanaticism. Question, though: Is there any 'official' source outside of VGC that is declaring the PS3 the sales leader for 2011? 2nd question: Overshipping or over-ordering? Do the product manufacturer's decide how many units of their product are shipped to retail outlets, or do they simply fulfill product orders that the retail outlets request? Both MS and Sony have now been accused of overshipping, so hopefully that question can be answered without bias for how things turned out THIS year ... |
There is an official source. MS's own financial reports. It's funny how you talk about latching on to whatever source supports your position, but you don't even go the source you should be looking at, MS themselves. In 2010, MS only shipped 12.2 million consoles, at which point they had very little in the channels (~600K). This is either because they completely underestimated Kinect's effect, or they may have wanted to be able to report a fantastic year in 2011 (first time they've outshipped the PS3 and Wii) before console sales drop incredibly. Either way, in order to get stock up to normal levels, they had to ship ~1-1.3 million extra consoles in Q1 2011. Now if those 1-1.3 million units were in 2010, like they should have been, MS would have only shipped ~13.6-13.9 million last year, or 200K-500K less than the PS3 shipped. In other words, we wouldn't even be having this silly debate anymore if people wouldn't be so selective in what they want to believe. 
