| TWRoO said: Perhaps when they are averaged out yes, but the shipment numbers are refering to one very small time frame, that being the last day of March. You know from VGC that the Wii sells roughly 300-400k per week, which means Nintendo have to keep supplying that many each week, what if a big (or just normal will do) shipment of Wii's were counted a couple of days before March 31st, that is an extra 400k on top of whatever supply might have been left in the stores. We really cannot get anything exact from shipment data, because we don't know how each company does it, and when using Wii's massive weekly numbers that might cause discrepancy. ------- Or even, what about the stores themselves, in the USA there are many places that have been holding Wii's for specific dates which they can advertise and get a line of customers for, they may have been holding onto Wiis which are technically shipped but not on store shelves at any normal time, rather very early in the morning on 1 particular day. |
I agree. That's basically what I was saying (or trying to say), only in a slightly different way, and a little bit added.
Either way, like you said, we can't get solid sales to customers data from it, unless of course we show there's only 100k sitting around for the 360, then we know we overtracked by a bit. But since there's a million on shelves or in shipments, it's hard to say if we're that far off or not.
