domflo said:
holmen said:
I'm wondering about one thing, how to estimate number of machines stores have on the shelves?
I have been to two electronic supermarkets and both had really big piles of xb1:s and ps4:s (but both stores had just a single wii-u)
My guess is that they keep a big stock preparing for Christmas sales.
And now how to estimate number of ps4:s and xb1 on shelves.
Probably only MS and Sony can know how many they produced, and how many of those that contacted their servers.
So if someone say 2 mil ps4:s on shelves are impossible, how do they know/calculate that?
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The second fiscal quarter just ended and the companies announced how many of their products were shipped (produced in their factories and then sent to retailers). Since there is a ~2 million discrepancy between VGCs numbers for the PS4 and Sony's shipment numbers, VGC assumes that 2 million PS4's are on shelves at retailers, since VGC tracks sold numbers.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were more PS4's or Xbox One's on shelves than Wii U's though. That's the case at every store I go to. 2 million PS4's out there seems like a stretch, but considering that almost any Saturn or MediaMarkt around my are has roughly 80 - 120 PS4's on display at any given time, it COULD be possible. It's unlikely though.
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Very unlikely, because that's assuming Sony shipped nothing for all of October. The 13.5m shipped was for LTD ending Q3, which is Sept. 30th. I highly doubt Sony slowed down shipping at the beginning of the busiest season in all of consumer spending.
