August 2017 NPD Thread ! Switch Won

[TheBlackNaruto]

VideoGameAccountant said:

Shadow1980 said:

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I've been over this before with you. Shipments are not sales. They are usually not congruent with sales. Therefore, we shouldn't assume sales will be down later this year just because Sony projects reduced shipments.

You can not sell what you don't have in the stores. If shipments are down, this means sales will be down because you can not sell inventory you don't have. If begining inventory is 3 million and shipments during the quarter were 2 million, you can't sell more than 5 million. If Sony is shiping fewer units to stores, then sales will be lower in future quarters because that means there are fewer Playstations in the stores. Moreover, the stores are ordering less because they are selling less and they have enough inventory already. So a decline in shipments means a decline in sales because sales can not exceed shipments.

I'm willing to keep this conversation going (and I do enjoy these discussion, even if it seems like I'm being a jerk), but you gotta make a more cohesive argument rather than going paragraph by paragraph, which is annoying.

Edited it as my original comment was a bit mean

Just wanted to point out that this is FACTUALLY incorrect because we know for the first portion of 2017 that PS4 shimpments were indeed down YOY but the SALES were actually up YOY...so shipments being down does not equate to sales being down...Now don't get me wrong I am not saying sales can exceed shipments but shipments being down does not mean sales will be......the rest I leave between you and Shadow though lol