Aura7541 said:
thismeintiel said:
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.
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Microsoft confirmed that by the end of 2013, the company sold 3 million X1's to consumers (this was also the last time MS used sold-to-consumers figures). Not long after, MS said that they shipped 3.9 million X1's. So there might have been 700-900K X1's still on shelves by the end of 2014.
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Yea, it was 900K according to MS, since the 3.9M was also for the same time period. Which really surprised me that they would even announce the 3M, as the big gap (actually normal for any other time outside of a launch) helped illustrate the lack of demand in most parts of the world outside the US/UK.
