| drkohler said: So I have to repeat myself for you, once again: 1. Transit time Shanghai-Europe is approx. 4-5 weeks depending on how much you are willing to pay, to NA probably a week less. If Sony only shipped units, this would mean that close to the entire December manfucatured units were on sea. If that were true, January store shelves would have been filled (ok, not filled there would have been stock every week). That didn't happen, so we can conclude that early/first half of December units (intended for January) were flown in. 2. That Sony can manufacture a lot more than MS is a Pachter rumour which I consider absolutely false (simply because it goes against Sony's own projected sales numbers). And there simply is not enough manufacturing capacity available into XMas (as really everyone is manufacturing stuff at this time). So let's project some numbers: 1. Sony started two weeks earlier with mass manufacturing and flew in some stock for December. 2.MS manufactures about 1M units per month, Sony about 275k per week. 3. Since MS shipped 3.9mio units (of which 3mio sold through and 600-700k sold into retail), Sony sold through 4.2mio units and shipped/sold about 600-800k units by end of year. Higher numbers would really surprise me. |
Well, I have to agree with most of what have explained. But how this would explain the PS4 shortages at late december early janurary?
If we follow VGChartz numbers PS4 sales have drop 70% from pre-Xmass week.
Did Sony streached too thin the supply in smaller markets?
