| Farsala said: 1.6m on shelves or in transit is still pretty low, but at least shipments are back to normal compared to last quarter. And so many people were saying PS4 sales didn't reach 80m because Sony always announces the milestones. Well apparently they don't feel 80m is significant, but maybe when they pass PS3 LTD it will be significant. |
That's not low. That's actually about normal. The only time it's really higher is during the holidays. Sony doesn't always give us sellthrough to go with shipped, but sometimes they are close enough that we can guess a few things.
On March 1st of 2015, they announced they had sold through 20.2M units. They shipped 22.3M as of March 31st for the same year. Even if they had only sold 500K for March, which I kinda doubt that was the case, they would have had 1.6M on shelves. It was most likely closer to 1M. The gap between shipped and sold for the end of 2015 was also only ~1.8M.
Last year, the gaps seemed a little higher. VGC estimated it at ~1.98M for this same point in time. Of course, it was PS4's best year, so it's understandable that you would need more stock on shelves. This year sales are a little lower than last year's, so it stands to reason you wouldn't need as much stock on shelves to get you through the same amount of time.
