Stromprophet on 09 March 2007
HappySqurriel said:
Stromprophet said:
360 did the same thing last year once the got production equal to demand in May. They never sold more than 300k in any month but proceeding to ramp production up to something like about 400k shipping to the US every month.
Every manufacturer does that, Nintendo will do it once they meet demand. It's an inlfation of the numbers.
It could have something to do with Europe, but at this point I would assume Sony has enough to meet all the demand.
There is (way) more to it than that ...
There were (roughly) 3.5 Million Nintendo DS systems sold in North America in, 4 Million in Japan and a couple Million in Europe in Q4 of 2006 ... Basically 10 Million systems in a 3 month period ...
Now the DS is on the extreme end of the spectrum in sales, but most systems will sell 4 to 6 million systems in Q4 of any given year; it takes months to build up the necessary stock to withstand the christmas rush...
That's simply untrue. Even after the Christmas rush it M$ announced that they had shipped 10.4 million, but actual NPD data and all other available sales data AFTER christmas reflected somewhere from as low as 8 million to as high as 9 million.
As I said, every supplier does this. Sony is guilty of the exact thing with the PSP. I'm sure the Wii will have over supply as well before long. It's simply an inflation tactic used by the manufacturers to artificially pump up numbers.
4-6 million, is that why 360 sold only around 2 million thru q4? They didn't need to build up that many extra systems to withstand any kind of rush.
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