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The Christmas period was always going to bring in the most cash compared to other quarters, what better time to over-produce units that sell at a loss?



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nordlead said:
Demotruk said:
nordlead said:
lol, ok let's not jump on the under/over tracked bandwagon yet. People like to use varying terms to describe all sorts of things. Anyone remember the graph where the Wii install base dropped? They were counting active players, not units actually sold.

Installed base is not a vague term though, it's pretty specific. "Active user base", yeah, tougher to determine, but "installed base" has always meant the amount sold to customers.

but that isn't true at all.

Here, "install base" -

WTF is that? I can only fathom that if this chart isn't a joke it's active userbase, in which it still doesn't make sense ..



 

Your just asking for trouble huh?



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Seece said:
nordlead said:
Demotruk said:
nordlead said:
lol, ok let's not jump on the under/over tracked bandwagon yet. People like to use varying terms to describe all sorts of things. Anyone remember the graph where the Wii install base dropped? They were counting active players, not units actually sold.

Installed base is not a vague term though, it's pretty specific. "Active user base", yeah, tougher to determine, but "installed base" has always meant the amount sold to customers.

but that isn't true at all.

Here, "install base" -

WTF is that? I can only fathom that if this chart isn't a joke it's active userbase, in which it still doesn't make sense ..

it was the iSupply installed base forcast chart. This spawned tons of hilarious posts/threads.




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Recently a Sony exec said they had sold 31 million and so many people thought he meant shipped only to quickly be proven wrong by the official shipped numbers. Now when someone says "about 30 million" we ignore that previous statement and assume that this is the number of consoles sold to consumers? My advice is to not expect big changes to the numbers based off a single statement by some guy at the company that is by no means definitive.



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Nobody here know the "approximately" word mean, not exactly, could be 32 millions could be 29 million then thats the answer.



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lol, at the first 4 post.


I think PS3 fans are pretty calm, but if some of you want a meltdown, keep trying, this is not enough.



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nordlead said:

but that isn't true at all.

Here, "install base" -

I stand corrected, though I had never heard it used that way, and I do think it's not the normal use of the phrase.



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"Approx" that says all.



psrock said:
lol, at the first 4 post.


I think PS3 fans are pretty calm, but if some of you want a meltdown, keep trying, this is not enough.

Short memory?



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