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Fei-Hung on 25 November 2015
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SWORDF1SH said:
patronmacabre said:

My guess is that PS4 goes through its shipments much faster than other consoles. So there probably weren't that many PS4s out in the wild when Sony announced its ~29 million shipped number. (And even this guess is based of my assumption that VGChartz weights the data they get so that it's more in line with sales/shipment/NPD numbers. Weights are used constantly by survey firms in a similar manner).

VGChartz was more bullish about PS4s numbers in 2014, which resulted in it being significantly overtracked by the end of the year. The PS4 is just hard to track. But at least we have something to compare it to, unlike the Xbox One.

It should of been one of ioi's more easier predictions though. If we could see it was 1M undertracked from shipped data, why weren't there any adjustments after the financial report?


I think that's due to not all the consoles going through inventory at the same speed. Some people thought Sony were flooding the channel with extra units in preparation for Black Friday and holidays. Some people thought it was about right as shops may increase orders in preparation for holidays. 

 

At least now we know the sold through numbers, the sales team can start working on where to make adjustments. The biggest problem obviously it's where to make them as we know they can't simply add numbers, they have to figure out where it sold more to ensure the formula they use is also adjusted. 

 

We know what it sold in America and the UK so we know the adjustments won't be coming from there.