shikamaru317 said:
cycycychris said: I understand ioi point of view on this. If he can't find where the system was mistracked, it's hard to make changes. I'm sure Sony probably wouldn't lie about the number on stage. For all we know, Sony could have assumed the number. |
Yeah, I have to wonder about that as well. How could Sony possibly know how many they sold through to consumers? It's not like they can ring up every game retailer in every country where the PS4 is available and ask them how many PS4's they've sold. Now obviously Sony knows how much they've shipped to retailers, but how could they possibly know how many they've sold to consumers except from compiling the exact same numbers from NPD, GFK, and Media Create that ioi also uses, numbers that don't add up to 10m? It seems to me like they must be making guesses for the remaining regions that don't get tracked by a firm, the same exact thing that ioi is doing, except for some reason Sony is guessing about 600k higher for those regions than ioi is, presumably because they've shipped proportionally more PS4's than PS3's to those regions, which would explain why ioi is off since he's guessing sales for those untracked regions based on PS3 trends.
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Stock burn through.
If you sale your shipment the same week it arrives its easy as hell to know how much you have sold, the vgc ioi apolagists trying to pretand sony is wrong are hilarious.
Sony is not guessing vgc are, they know every freaking market and ther demend there, its really that simple. If im getting requests for more stock on the daily its selling X. If i get it every week its selling Y if every months its Z.
Vg is using 360/PS3 data to guess PS4, no surprise its not working well. Then factor in growth in emerging markets and its easy to see why they are confused and numbers not inline with legit sony ones.