TheEspionage said:
bananaking21 said:
where did you get that number from, may i ask?
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Where did your undertracked number come from?
Hypothetically if we use what sony has said they believe they will sell 3m by the end of 2013. This also shows Sony is shipping 5m units by march.
Now lets take in for a moment what is going on between November 15th to March 1st.
December 1st Sony announces 2.1m. Supply contrain lasted til around the 15th when Walmart recieved a big supply. Over those two weeks they were selling about around 200-300k. That puts it at 2.7m. Now unless we expect Sony to magically ship a lot more over the next two weeks to reach 3.5m which is plausible but doubtful. Why?
Well considering Sony is releasing PS4 in Japan on February 22nd that would equate to a large number of the shipments. lets just say 500k hypotheically. That would boost that 2.7 to a 3.2. This would make for 1.8m PS4's in the next 3 months. 1.8 divided by 12 weeks equals 150k. This would be 150k shipments weekly for January to march outside of japan.
But if we increase that number like you are saying undertracked that means that sony would be shipping less than 150k a week outside of japan for the next 3 months which is oddly minicsule wouldnt you say?
Also what makes you think that Sony can magically ship more consoles than Microsoft in the same time frame?
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you do realize that a projection of sales does not equal the ability to manufactur consoles, correct? Sony's projection of 5M is the amount of consoles they expected to sell back when they made the projection back in september. this doesnt mean that 5 million is all they can make up until march. since then sony said that they expect to beat their projections many times btw.
also, that undertracked claim comes from the "others" sales. where PS4 just beat XB1 by 1k while launching in 11 more countries. and also being released in more countries than the xbox one in prior weeks.
