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drkohler said: That was a number put forward by a gaf poster (I think it was thuway who is more or less a troll posing as an insider). There is no way Sony could have shipped 500k units to Asia. This would be a 2 week ww supply, so Sony would have shipped zero units into the world for two weeks. Obviously wrong, I'd guess the asian launch was about 150k, 200k tops, units. |
It was famousmortimer.
He said Sony alloccated 500k for the Asia/Mid-East launch because they are sure they will sold these units there but they are not sure they will sold more than 1 million in US at launch... so instead to allocate these 500k units in US (unsure about to sell out) they allocated to Asia/Mid-East (sure about to sell out).
That said... that was the Sony allocation for the production.
Sony was caught by surprise witht he demand in US... so they could even changed the plans a little a week or two before the Asia/Mid-East launch to sent only 200k there and 300k for US for example.
Here he said the 500k: http://doddscientifics.com/2013/12/13/super-fun-sales-chat-2013/
The others parts explaining what he said you can found in his twitter: https://twitter.com/atPeteDodd
