from what i gather 2 days ago while trying to figure it out (on the net of course  the forums here werent informative everyone was just shouting) every time MS says X amounts sold global ect. it was sold b/c i would check each announcement (there are a few usually landmark ones like 20M 30m 50m ect.) and then checked VGC numbers and they where the same

you just watch we'll have 3.5M+ for the X-box from NPD soon

I think the real issue people are having with Microsoft's announcement is that we know that Microsoft and Sony were neck to neck and Microsoft made an announcement without having Sony numbers...

im guessing NPD has been delayed.

Yet they did have some numbers from Sony. Sony made the 3.9M comment before MS gave the Keynote talk at CES.  So MS may have simply said with that that they have enough information with knowing how many 360s they shipped and polling thier major retail partners to find out aproximatly how many 360s are on store floors to know a real good estimate on how many 360s have sold.

if NPD delayed,they will announce
why so nervous

tagged for evidence^^

Nintendo just reported that the Gamecube sold 0 units last December. Pretty dismal performance tbh =/

For a split second, like very small moment actually thought Nintendo reported something....but my eyes soon saw gamecube. 

This is boring me now. I didn't play XCOM for an hour, waiting for these numbers.

30 mins, I'll be back.

Now the numbers should come in, thanks for leaving Carl!