| JayWood2010 said: There wont be another announcement on it. The original announcement was it, to where people over-reacted and downplayed it. The next time you will hear shipment numbers most likely would be quarterly results which could be like 12-13m total. If your lucky they might announce it on NPD or something, maybe new years but i doubt it |
I don't think it's because it was downplayed, because honestly, it was 100% factual. Like I noted in my calculations above, 10m shipped is likely happening either right now, or within a few days. Meanwhile, "close to 10m shipped" was announced Nov. 13th. More than two weeks ago. Which means by the time it happens, it will have been three weeks. Psychologically, if they were to say 10m shipped, it could now seem like a step backward. Better to just say 10m at that point which incentivises more people on black friday to purchase, because the console appears healthier than previously thought.
I mean, why else announce it so early? Why not just say it when it happened? It was clearly done for the purpose of vitalizing sales. So yeah, I don't think we are going to revisit 10m. Like Seece says, it's more likely we'll hear a LTD at some point in Jan, or we'll have to settle for xbox shipped units from the financials.
