The Credibility of VGChartz

[Max King of the Wild]

kowenicki said:

Max King of the Wild said:

Carl2291 said:
The numbers were 70 Million as of Nov 4th. We dont know if this contains Holiday bundles/shipments, or how msny of them.

68M for PS3 at the end of September is actually quite possible. It matches previous Years trends for supply, for example. You could probably give/take 100/200k from the totals but shipping/producing 1.8-2 Million PS3s ready for the Holidays throughout October wouldnt be that surprising.

It was selling over 200k every Week and there was also the AC3 bundles and Xillia 2 bundle too, however many there were.

Between Sept 30th and Nov 3rd, Sony sold ~1.3 Million PS3s, so I dont think shipping 1.8 to 2 Million in the same time-frame with the busiest Months yet to come is that odd. Is it?

Well let me ask you how many do you think Sony is going to ship in the 4th quarter? In my opnion they will ship about 5.5 million units. So shipping more than a 1/3 of the units in the slowest month of the quarter is odd to me. It doesn't make sense to sell more ship less for December. It makes more sense to increase shipments as sales start to increase. So more like 1.1million for october, 2.2 million for November and 2.2 million for December.

Retailers will be ordering stock in November for November and December.  They arent ordering stock on the 17th Dec for the following week are they.  That would be madness.

According to VGC Ps3 sold 825k in October. That would mean Sony shipped about 300k more that month than sold while increasing shippments in November.