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Forums - Sales - Motorstorm Pacific Rift sales severely undertracked on vgchartz!!!

leo-j said:
Barozi said:
theonewhoisme said:
Barozi said:

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/81136/big-three-shipment-update-forecasts-through-june-2010/

June 2010 shipments:

PS3 - 38.12m
360 - 41.70m

http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly.php?date=40328®=World&date=40363&console=&maker=

End of June sales:

PS3 - 36.13m
360 - 40.88m

Difference between shipped and sold:

PS3 - 1.99m
360 - 0.82m

1. NO PS3 shortages at that time (this was YOUR excuse)
2. PS3 ships to more 14 more countries than 360 (FACT!)
3. Old 360 models where phased out for the new 360S models which retailers began to receive only 3 weeks AFTER these dates. So MS obviously shipped not many units in that quarter.

1. there were earlier in the quarter

2. and guess what those units get sold, if the difference was about the same instead of increasing there wouldn't be a problem

3. didn't hear anything about 360 shortages  

1. In the US only as far as I can see. That's why Sony increased the production while at the same time the longer the holidays were over the fewer people bought a PS3. So more PS3 got produced than usual to make up the shortages, but the demand wasn't as strong as before (which is totally normal in these months), thus overshipping for the next quarter.

2. The problem with countries which don't spend so much money on video games is that you still need to make sure to ship several consoles to every store in the whole country even though many people don't have enough money to buy these luxury items.
Percentually the monthly ship/buy ratio is totally different to a country in which people earn more money.
If it wasn't for this problem, why wouldn't Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony ship their consoles to every country of the world ?

3. Because there weren't real shortages because MS stopped to produce and ship the old 360s when they had around 1.5-2m on the shelves around the world (which is likely to be exact 1 month before they announced shipment numbers) and concentrated on producing the new 360S in the meantime.
Obviously they didn't want to have 2m old 360s left when they introduced and later sold the 360S, because they were massively cutting the price for the old models.
Would be pretty dumb to have 2m units on the shelves at the beginning of July, when the 360S hits the retailers only 3 weeks later, wouldn't it ?


it's unlikely that sony over shipped nearly 3 million PS3s for the quarter when the only way they can ship the consoles is if retailers purchase those consoles...

Because your the expert right?

So you give me your weekly expertise.  We will see who to believe, you or vgchartz.

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NPD, GFK and Media Create data suggest that this game is not undertracked at all.