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Puppyroach said: So you think Sony calls the resellers to check how many units they have sold? :) Ofcourse they don´t, they go by shipped=sell-through at launch since that gives a pretty accurate account for the numbers of consoles sold. Otherwise they would never been able to know that they sold 1 million units in the first 24h on market in NA. When counting, based on what we so far know, this is what has happened according to Sony and VGChartz: 2013-11-17: Announcement of 1000000 sold in 24 hours. 2013-12-03: Announcement of 2100000 sold in NA+SA+EU 2013-12-07: Accordning to VGC 2379000 sold This averages on almost 69000 consoles/day between the first two announcements and almost 70000 consoles/day between the 3/12 and 7/12. According to those numbers, PS4 would actually have INCREASED slightly in daily sales after its two biggest launches. Something doesn´t add up and I do not care if it´s with MS or Sony, they have become too quiet all of a sudden. |
They do like they explained before the 2.1m numbers.
LE FIGARO - Will you announce the two million mark for PS4s sold worldwide by Saturday?
Andrew HOUSE - I'm crossing my fingers. But we'll need more than 24 hours to calculate the European sales. It's more complicated to measure European sales. It was simpler to measure the North American sales because we only had to count the retail sales from two countries - United States and Canada.
You are just confusing the things because the figures are launch numbers for US and after EU (WW)... they did that for US in less than 48 hours because they could check the tracking services there for the first 24 hours but to Europe they need a lot more time because there are a lot of more countries and tracking services.
So yeap... they check resellers and tracking services.
MS not (that's why the Sony numbers are more reliable than MS... MS give you the 24 hours sales 8 hours before the 24 hours ended).
