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. |
Here they are:
Stock doesn't magically go from the production line to the retailer within seconds. I'm a Logistics Manager, and I deal with the problems of the global supply chain crisis every day. My warehouse just took in 6 container loads yesterday (this is a lot for a small warehouse staffed by a total of 4 people) from the NY port that have to be shipped by road to South Carolina because the port in Charleston is so overburned it's actually faster to get the material delivered to our plant in SC by unloading in NY than shipping directly to the port in SC.
If you don't understand the distinction between "shipped units" and "sold units" don't frequent a website that tracks sales. Not everything is a conspiracy against Sony. Every console manufacturer is being affected by the global supply chain disruption and the semiconductor chip shortage. There's no need for you to accuse VGChartz of trying to make Sony look bad just because for some reason you are personally offended by the weekly numbers you see.
By your logic, we should already be tracking Sony's projected but unmanufactured units as sold units as well. Why not lose all sales credibility and post a banner on the front page of the site proclaiming PS5 has already achieved 100 million sales just for funsies? Because that's not how this site tracks console sales for any hardware manufacturer, that's why. There's no agenda here.
