eva01beserk said:
Maybe. But keep in mind that demand for the Kinect model is on the floor, so all those skus are still in stores. MS could ship more $400 skus all they want but that wont sell the other ones. So than inventory is almost frozzen on store shelfs and considering the instant drop of sales in may, I can see there being a few hundred K's in stores, While MS keeps shipping new $400 sku's that dont sell right away either so those are also piling up. Since the x1 is only in 13 countrys I make that to be that a lot of retailers from the other countrys have imported a lot of them to their stores without any demand either, since the x1 only has demand in the US. So even if they count as a purchase in MS's books, since they have been sold by the original retailer, the reality is that all over the world are a lot of x1's on tier 2 and 3 countrys sitting on shelfs, because the demand is so low. All those should not count to the total sold through number. |
How would MS ship all those SKUs if nobody is buying X1s? What store would keep ordering them? And why would retailers import 100s of thousands of X1s to their countries if there's apparently no demand for them there anyway?
The X1 is not below 4.5 million, the thing's sold 1.23 million this year in the US alone (according to NPD until the end of July) and another 70k in Germany until the end of June, that already puts it at 4.3 million, the X1 has easily sold more than 200k in the rest of the world in 2014.