Pionner said:
Once again, you cannot use that method with PS5. Whatever Sony ships they sell. There’s no PS5 stock anywhere. It’s been 2 weeks since March 31st where this sites data reports. Even if I believed that assertion, all those “unites in transit” would have been sold already. More importantly, when Sony reports shipped, it’s shipped to retailers meaning they already bought them and is in their warehouses. Not that consoles are still in transit. So that fact automatically makes that “unit in transit argument” factually wrong. |
Let’s use a more common example of how sold/shipped actually works:
You buy something on Amazon and let’s say it take 5 days for the delivery. That’s a direct shipping distribution from one retailer to the customer, yet there’s still a small delay between shipped and delivered. That’s what VGC is tracking, the last transaction for each console sold to customers and that’s usually the quickest in the distribution chain.
Before that, once the product is out of production, it’s shipped from factory to the freighter warehouse, than shipped to the freighter’s warehouse at its intended destination and this can take days or weeks depending of the transportation used (boat, truck, plane, etc). Only then it’s shipped to retailers main distribution centers and even after that it can take a few days before the product will be transferred to the retailer where it will be ready to be SOLD to the customer.
What Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft (when they bother to) track is what is sold to THEIR customers, aka Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, etc. And this happens weeks before the product is available to be sold to the customers, so even if something is always sold out, there will be a gap between what is reported shipped and what is delivered and sold.
Who knows, from the 19M figures, maybe 100k where shipped on the 29th of March and where only just sold to customers last week. They were in transit.
