EA with PS4/Xbox One install base estimates

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jason1637 said:

CosmicSex said:

Who is he and why is this one person more informed than an entity that does business directly with Microsoft? How does he know 'for fact'? Does he work for Microsoft because that is the only way I would say he know more than EA?

He is a insider and EA numbers dont even match up with NPD numbers anyway. End of 2016 their estimates were 25.6m but end of 2017 their estimates are 29.4m for XBO which means it sold 3.8m in 2017 but we know it sold 4.2m in the US alone in 2017 from NPD so EA's estimates dont include Japan or are inaccurate.

You don't even need Zhuge to confirm that EA's numbers aren't "right" because those numbers are referring to the installed base, not sold-through numbers. At one point, about half of the PS4 Pro's sales were upgrade purchases meaning that only half of the Pro's sales would add to the installed base total.

Another piece of evidence that proves that the XB1's sold-through numbers were over 30m by the end of 2017 is JRR's XB1 shipment estimates. They have it at 32.15m and there's absolutely no way that over 2m units were stuck on shelves.