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nanarchy on 21 July 2015
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BMaker11 said:
jlmurph2 said:
BMaker11 said:
jlmurph2 said:


Lol really? Absolutely nothing? Because that's all you're gonna get in a financial report.

The numbers don't mean anything, not because "that's all you're gonna get". They don't matter becase MS has been overshipping since launch (remember the whole 3.9M sold vs shipped debacle Greenberg was pinning? Or how Day 1 edition XBOnes were available like 8 months after launch? Or how AC bundles are available to this day?). Not until they make a "we've sold X amount to the consumer" announcement so we can gauge the disparity between how much they've shipped and how many people are buying XBOnes, will their shipment numbers matter.

They're overshipping yet stores keep ordering more?

Like I said: 3.9 shipped, Greenberg was trying to pass off as sold, when it was really 3M sold. Day 1 editions were available several months after launch. And AC Bundles are still available. If that's not overshipping, I don't know what is. 

You don't seem to understand how supply chains work. MS can't just overship constantly. They sell to retailers and can only ship what these retailers buy from them, they can make incentives etc for retailers to purchase extra but they can't just ship extra. No company can know for certain how many units are sold to consumers, financial reports are legal documents where companies are legally required to be accurate and hence all companies say what they provably know which is how many they sold to retailers.