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Forums - Sales - Official: 360 vs PS3 gap now 2.88m

LivingMetal on 04 February 2011
whatever said:

Yeah, Sony has been stuffing the channel for over a year now.  At least according to some people here every time the shipped numbers come out.


It's a new illegal business practice called "stuff -n- sell."  It's a tactic to confuse and piss off the competition.  And it's working.



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TheNoobHolocaust on 04 February 2011

Lmao I don't get why people even use the term "overship". Not only is it one of the single dumbest arguments I've ever heard but for some reason people on here think its a bad thing. Since when is knowing that there will be enough to go around a bad thing. Since when did discounts become a bad thing(usually caused by an excess of a game/console). If anything they should aim to "overship". Its better for us customers.




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ArabianPrince on 04 February 2011

i dont get it why does vgchartz have sony shipping 47.9 yet its 47.2 here but 360 sold more than it shipped cuz it hipped like 50.7 and on vgchartz its 51.2 thats some bullshit



ElGranCabeza on 04 February 2011
XanderZane said:
ElGranCabeza said:
pachoo5 said:

That is the shipped gap. There are more PS3s sitting on store shelves than there are 360s sitting on store shelves. The sold through to consumer gap is a little over 4 million.


No.


Ummm Yes. Definitely in America this is very true. In Europe the PS3 only sold slightly better then the XBox 360. The Wii and 360 pretty much destroyed the PS3 this holiday in America. The gaps each week were pretty large at times. The sold to consumer gap is definitely over 4 million. People keep forgetting that NPD doesn't count every retail and Walmart is one of the biggest retailers that aren't on the list. It's safe to say more 360 sold at that store then PS3. I don't even know how Europe is even tracked. I'm sure their are countries missing from the tally.

Who's talking about America only? WW buddy. 

On top of that there are 360s AND PS3s in store shelves all over the East coast. Trust me.



GuiltySpartan77 on 04 February 2011

Lol you guys are arguing over Shipped figures its so funny. Tell me when the gap is 2.8 million in sales then i will actually take the time to comment and examine the figures but shipped???? Who Cares the only people that care about shipped numbers are the extreme nerds. 



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GuiltySpartan77 on 04 February 2011

yeah im sure gamestop had too many ps3's thats why they had to have that little $50 gamestop gift card deal. I say over shipping isn't good or bad it just inflates stores with to much stock and causes them not to want to buy more until the holidays. 



Ping_ii on 04 February 2011

LOL @ the overshippz.



thx1139 on 04 February 2011
ArabianPrince said:

i dont get it why does vgchartz have sony shipping 47.9 yet its 47.2 here but 360 sold more than it shipped cuz it hipped like 50.7 and on vgchartz its 51.2 thats some bullshit

You do realize that the shipment figures are the number shipped as of 12/31/2010 and the VGChartz sales numbers are through 01/29/2011?



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

Damnyouall on 04 February 2011
psrock said:
WarmachineX said:

too bad shipping doesn't equal sales.


It does for Sony, MS and Nintendo


That may be the most intelligent thing I have ever read on vgchartz. Shipped means sold to retailers (and other resellers). Sony, MS and Nintendo have the profits in their bank accounts. Those consoles can not be returned.  Whatever happens, they will eventually be sold to consumers. They will not end up back in their maker's production facilities by some magical time warp.

Now if some maker had millions of unshipped consoles in a warehouse, that would be awful. But shipped is very good. The more you know.



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FinalEvangelion on 05 February 2011

Seriously, how many times are we going to hear about Sony overshipping or stuffing the channels everytime their quarters are better than people expected?



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