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BeardandBrindle on 11 November 2014
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Intrinsic said:

Wait a min... can someone help clear this up for me.

 

  • As at the end of september 2014, sony had shipped a total of 13.5M PS4s worldwide. 
  • So sony is (which coincides with some rumors earlier this year) has been shipping around 1.1M consoles per month.
  • So its safe to say that at the end of October, a total of around 14.6M PS4s had been shipped at least. Cause typically everyone starts ramping production and shipping up in october to meet the increased demand of the holiday season. But lets assume none of that happenned and sony still shipped only 1.1M average.
  • VGC tracking has the PS4 at 12.6M sold as of the end of October. That means according to VGC there are currently at least 2M PS4s ON SHELVES
  • Where as every other console has no more than 1.5M consoles on shelves. According to VGC tracking. 
  • So basically, the best selling console for the past 12 months is seemingly having the hardest time selling its shipped hardware
Please, and this is a sincere question so I would like someone who knows more about this stuff to help me understand why. Is there something extremely wrong with the PS4 tracking? Like something is just very very very fundamentally wrong with how the PS4 is tracked here at VGC. That's why as of the time when sony announced they had sold 10M consoles VGC was undertracking the PS4 by as much as 1M consoles. Is it just getting worse? Cause these numbers just doesn't make sense at all. I can even come up with a possible scenario by which these numbers make sense.

 


I'm new to vgc and I'm curious about this as well. I thought it was pretty established that PS4 was at roughly 13.5 million a couple weeks ago. If that's true (apparently it is), there's NO WAY these numbers are anywhere CLOSE to accurate. How are the vgc numbers calculated, guessing combined with nothing?