NPD Sales.

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HappySqurriel said:

koffieboon said:
Although only partly related to this topic, does anybody know at what exact stage Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft count a console as being shipped and do we know if they all use the exact same stage?

I'm not certain of the exact stages of all three console manufacturers accounting practices at the moment, but with there fiscal 2007 report Sony changed their shipped numbers to reflect the shipment out of their hands to retailers (and I believe it was from their factories to warehouses before this).

 

But do they have to be in the hand of retailers or not? Cause a console can already be ordered by a retailer even before it is manufactured. In that case it could be considered "shipped" the minute it leaves the factory but it will still be weeks in transit before it will actually reach the retailer. In that case the difference between shipped and sold will be a lot bigger than when the retailer needs to have physically received the console.