colafitte said:
I don't see your point.... I said that XBO almost shipped the same as PS4 last quarter..., so why XBO won't have the same number of units on shelves as PS4???. Last year, XBO shipped 3'8 mill and sold 3'0 mill, so that's 0'8 mill on shelves from 3'8 mill in a launch console where normally shortages happens...So why wouldn't be around 1'5 mill on shelves from around 5'5 mill shipped like PS4??? It sounds very reasonable for me. |
I don't think it's at all unreasonable that there are millions of X1s on shelves; if the sold through numbers were as good as PS4's, MS probably wouldn't be so keenly focusing on shipped (not sold) numbers. What I think is unreasonable is that retailers would just interminably purchase X1 stock, if it wasn't selling or expected to sell. In the case of the latter, the inventory stock could be extremely high and not all that far afield from what I've seen at my retailers. You bring up an excellent point about the comparable X1/PS4 shipped numbers (unfortunately with no X1/X360 breakdown...): with sales being so close over the holiday, the PS4 selling so much better all year, and the 0.8M X1s already on shelves, why wouldn't the X1 inventory be the same or (more likely) greater than the PS4?
