Ka-pi96 said:
Aeolus451 said:
Ka-pi96 said:
That's not really feasible though. They know how many they've shipped. It's their job to ship them so they can't possibly not know. They can't know how many have been sold to consumers though. To get that information they'd need stores to constantly update them which just isn't really possible. They can make estimates sure, but why use estimates that could be quite a bit off when you can give shipment numbers which you know are 100% accurate?
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They would know if there were consoles not selling in stores and in different countries. They track shipped to, overstock and sold to. It's the only way to make adjustments to shipping output to different locations. You can't ship a fixed amount of merchandise to everywhere without adjusting it otherwise certain locations would end up with lots of overstock. Just shipped to numbers is not accurate at all. They could have a lot of overstock in certain markets where they thought they would of done better.
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It doesn't work exactly like that though. Microsoft don't just ship a load of consoles to retailers and say 'sell them'. The retailers track their own stock and order more in when they need them, they don't need to tell Microsoft how much they have sold all the time and even if they did it would only be when they are ordering more stock anyway.
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Hmm. I doubt that is the case when they ship to different countries. I'm gonna have to look into it though. There could be a ton of OS sitting in china. I still think that MS tracks those numbers but doesn't disclose them.
