360 Numbers don't add up!

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Diomedes1976 said: bcds said: Xbox 360 hits 10.4 million, announces IPTV To be announced at CES this Sunday according to Joystick. Yes ,shipped . Remember when Sony announced back in july that they had sold 20 million PSPs ?Well they are now getting there . This is the same ....Microsoft announced september they had sold 6 million but where around 4,5 by then ...and until end october didnt reach those numbers .And now they are going to announce ,proud and glorious ,that they have hit the 10 million mark (as they promised!) but they are around the 8 million sold and wont hit ten until march or april .This is marketing ladies and gentleman ,and Microsoft is reputing themselves for lying a lot when speking numbers .

Okay well the first thing is that it is not marketing and it is not "clever use of numbers". The consoles arent given to retailers on consignment, the retaliers have to purchase the consoles from Microsoft before they can sell them in the store. So technically yes Microsoft has sold 10.4 million consoles, to them whether or not those 10.4 are in the hands of consumers will not net them any further money as they have already received it. All companies use these Nintendo calls it shipped totals while Sony and Microsoft use sold, its all the same and as I just said before technically they have been sold as Microsoft have received the money for them. The second thing is that you are contradicting yourself. You said in september they announced that they had shipped 6 million units but had only sold between 4-5 million at the time ie so lets average it out and say that they had sold 4.5 million of these 6 million consoles. Which means that there are 1.5 million sitting in retailer stores waiting to be sold. Now that they have shipped 10.4 million you are trying to say that retailers have 2.3 million consoles shitting on retail shelves ??? I would love to know how in the space of three months there are suddenly more unsold 360 per store than in September. Stores only order what they can sell and I find it impossible to believe that there would be an extra 800k-1m of unsold stock in retailers hands, especially after Christmas and the 360s biggest month, than what there was in September. The unsold ratio would remain pretty similar.