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generic-user-1 on 23 January 2015
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Landguy said:
CGI-Quality said:
Landguy said:
So many absolutes being used here:
1. It's an absolute that sony announced it sold 18.5 million. - Probably true or accurate.
2. It's an absolute that AMD announced "nearly" 30 million. - Whatever nearly means
3. It's impossible for there only to be 500k consoles on the shelves. - I guess most people have no idea of stocking levels on Jan 1 at most retailers. Based on the reports, you couldn't find a PS4 in europe for 2 weeks after the holidays.
4. XB1 therefore is overtracked. - So, when we add fuzzy math of #2 and minus 1 we can only achieve #3?

And people here complain about the accuracy of the numbers on VGchartz?

Then what's your call? Hard to criticize opinions and barely give one of your own, is it not?

So I will make up the answer that the XB1 is probably a little overtracked and it should be at 10.6 or 10.7 on Jan 1 of 2015.  That is the guess that I came to with the info provided.  I of course assumed that the stores are loaded with systems to come to that conclusion.  

IF, unlike others, I believe that retail stock levels are nowhere near what they used to be.  Almost all retailers keep just a small percentage of stock over what will sell in the next few days or week in their stores nowadays.  So, the need to think that there are so many PS4/XB1 units stacked up on Jan.1 isn't too true.  But, even though the sample size is small, I did see stock of the XB1 in most stores in the week or so around Jan1.  So, I think that the tracking could be spot on(even though that would be a first).  

See how there really is no definitive answer?  I am inclined to lean towards the second answer...

well the xbone is channelstuffed in europe... media markt has a looooooooooot of supply, and a lot of gaming related stuff that looks like m$ but a lot of  Pr goodies in the mix...