360 sales figures?

[Neos]

eques judicii said:

reverie said:
davygee, 12 million was their financial forecast for "sold to retail", not "sold to consumers" (as is proper for a financial statement), though Microsoft representatives tried to obfuscate the difference and use phrases like "in consumers' hands" when they are citing their forecast. MS sold 10.4 million units by December and 10.9 million by March. To reach 12 million they would have to sell 1.1 million units this quarter. That could work. eques judicii, If we assume that: - Microsoft is on track with their forecast and have sold 11.5 million units to retail - vgchartz is right about their estimate and 9.7 million units were sold to consumers That would mean that: - 1.8 million units are still on retail shelves. I think that would be healthy stock and very reasonable, so ioi's estimate does not sound too low at all.

true true... sorry i got a little upset because mostly everyone on this site seems to hate microsoft... I think if they have 2 million units on shelf then they need to do a price drop. This would certainly clear out the inventory. I still think that microsoft has probably exceeded 10 million but at these numbers the error in estimation is quite large (an error of 3 percent is about 300k consoles and based on the differences between ioi and NPD the error could reach 15% which would be 1.5 million consoles... although i doubt the error is that high... most likely around 2-5% which could put the 360 anywhere from 9.3 to 10.2 million...)

 

Considering how statistical this site is becoming I propose that ioi puts error bars on his estimations... it would give the data more credibility (there is no way of estimating precisely to the ones place like he does) Scientific studies always explain their error (any legitimate survey must provide error rates) otherwise they face considerable scrutiny and criticism from colleagues.... why shouldn't this site be held to the same standard?

 very, VERY simple to answer, scroll up, there is a beta logo, that means pretty much the same eh =)