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thismeintiel on 24 January 2015
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Landguy said:
thismeintiel 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?

Quite a bit of stretching in this post.  Are we really going to act like we don't know the meaning of nearly?  Really?  It means the exact same thing if they had said "almost 30M."  It's close to 30M, but not quite there.  No one EVER says nearly 30M if they mean its over 30M.

OK, lets say nearly =30 million.  So, Xb1 then is under tracked?  The problem isn't only the nearly 30 million number.  You ignored the rest of my post(common on these forums) to pick one part and complain about it or you accept the rest of my post as fact?  which way is it?

I agree with your numbered points...until you try to mock people using perfectly good math, not fuzzy at all, to come up with the conclusion the XBO is overtracked.  And if the number is exactly 30M (though nearly means it's less, maybe 29.8M), how does that equal the XBO being undertracked?  These would be shipped numbers, not sold to customer. So let's look at the "fuzzy" math.

The PS4 sold ~18.5M to customers in the same timeframe.  That means Sony has probably shipped around 19M, since there was no real issues with supply, except a few select places in the US and EU.  It may actually be more, but let's just go with 19M.  So that leaves 11M for the XBO.  VGC has the XBO selling ~10.8M.  Do you really think MS only had ~200K on shelves at the end of the year?  History does not support this number at all.  Even if we use the same 500K on shelves that we gave the PS4, then it is at least ~300K overtracked.  Of course, I think it'll be more than that.