Not sure this needs its own thread. Obviously we have no actual discrediting objective dales data, so VGC might have been reading the tea leaves right. But circumstantial evidence suggests otherwise.
Personally I think 15K for the USA for that week is more likely to be correct. The way things appear is that retailers told MS there was a precipitous drop off in sales that week and there would be major problems with trying to move stock if MS doesn't make a move on price. So just a few days later MS officially announces a permanent re-price cut to $349. You don't make such a major U-turn on price if you sell 62K units first week of January, and have less than a 50% WoW drop.
But there's nothing for it but to wait to see if NPD corroborates or contradicts VGC data. The good thing about VGC publishing sales information so late is that we don't have all that long to wait to see what NPD has to say.
And UK seems pretty unlikely too. PS4 wins Dec by a bigger margin than Xb one won Nov. Yet we're back with Xb one on top for the week immediately following the holiday period?
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