thismeintiel on 31 January 2013
| kowenicki said: The 360 under tracks is somewhat accounted for here. But there is still at least another 200k on top of say 300k here to account for. The 360 is at least 700k under tracked IMO. I knew it was ridiculously low in Europe and others in the VGC numbers over the last few months of 2012 and said so many times. An extra 700k on VGC numbers would still mean supply of 1.6m, or almost 4 months supply. |
I'd say max it is undertracked by is 500K. Probably closer to the 437K I calculated for EU using Nintendo's YOY declines. And since VGC includes more countries in EU than Nintendo does, it looks like that's where the vast majority, if not all of it, resides. This would put ~1.88M on shelves. Which isn't crazy at all when you consider that they had over 2M on shelves this time last year, as well as the fact that MS cut the 360's price for nearly 3 months in the US, which probably caused retailers to buy up more stock in anticipation of high Christmas sales.
