Xbox One production may slow down or stop to give retailers a chance to shift inventory

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McGran said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

McGran said:

Not sure everyone thought it would be a great achievement but it did at least let us know the benchmark for success Sony was setting itself.  In hindsight, given the actual performance, it looks like quite a soft target.  Therefore from today's perspective it doesn't look that great for MS even though they achieved the target Sony had set.

Yes it's a bit harsh on MS since they are performing well and are still tracking ahead of the X360.  It's just the PS4 has set the new benchmark for success and Xbone can't match it right now, so by comparison it looks bad.  It's not unique to gaming, it's just human nature.  If your football team is having its best season ever that's great, but if they're still trailing far behind their local rivals it's just not going to seem that great after all.

Sony has never used shipped numbers for the performance of the PS4, they did with the PS3 I believe.

That being said, their prediction was 5 million SOLD, not shipped by March. It is April 25 and MS is still sub 5 million sold.

Since they started reporting PS4 sales they have been very clear that the numbers are 'sold through'.  As you say, with the PS3 sales meant 'sales in' or shipped.

When this was announced there was no clear "we mean sell through" so I tend to believe that the laguage being used at that time was consistent with the language being used for PS3 sales, ie shipped, not sold through.  From what I saw, most reporting outlets also took the 5m to be a shipped target, hence their comparison the PS3's 3.55m over the same fiscal period.

Not that it really matters either way but I don't think it's unreasonable throw the MS supporters a bone on this one and say MS got close to (or hit) the original Sony forecast.

Very well then.