| welshbloke said: The original post is pointing at a sold number with shipped figures. Always going to be difficult to prove anything one way or another. Lets suspend belief for a moment and think how this could happen. Stock - It is highly probable that the PS3 has a higher amount of units in the channel. This is primarily because of how and where the unit are sold. It is because of this spread that they will have to ship more units to more individual distribution agents so this can explain higher numbers of shipped numbers that do not match sold. At certain points of high demand this figure may drop but I believe it will always have more in the pipe than the 360. So I cannot disagree that the shipped number gap is what it is what I would question though is trying to translate that number to sold. The other problem is VGC itself and the massive adjustments. These adjustments in my mind make the numbers far less reliable than some give them credit for. The margin of error will be higher but overall I think VGC provides a good early trend indicator. Lastly I could be wrong but this shipped gap has not really moved much either way it was probably 3 million last year as well. |
The thing about shipped numbers though is if they don't translate to sales then the retail store doesn't order more and they just drop the next week, I can see how Sony can have more in the channel since retailers want to keep a decent stock in all their stores but I don't see how it could effect any comparisons they are going to sell
