I have no idea what will happen.  But it's amusing to me how VGC has the 360 at 13.4 sold (vs 14.9 shipped) and the PS3 at 14.0 sold (vs 14.1 shipped).  Yet there aren't 4 threads with 200 posts demanding adjustments and preaching the importance of shipped over sold as there were when the roles were reversed in previous years.  Doesn't that come off a bit ... hypocritical for many?

And the Wii descrepancy is an entirely different matter all together ...

Right, i'm going to break this down for you & everybody else who is having trouble understanding how shipping & the retail channel work because i can see that a lot of people just don't understand the numbers. Because we don't have Jan-March 2012 fiscal numbers yet we can't show to what extent Microsoft overshipped during the previous quarter of Oct-Dec 2011, however we do have Oct-Dec 2010 & Jan-March 2011's numbers to use as an example of microsoft overshipping in a quarter this year.

When companies sell products not only do they need to ship enough to sell to consumers, they also need to ship enough to have a healthy supply chain of consoles on shelves, in warehouses & in transit.

During the quarter of Oct-Dec 2010 Microsoft shipped 6.3 million consoles, yet using Vgchartz numbers you can see that for that quarter they actually sold 6.89 million consoles. Between retail & Microsoft they underestimated how many consoles they would sell & ended up undershipping for that quarter. When this happened there were shortages at the end of the year & the normal amount of consoles that should have been in the retail chain became depleted. To make up for undershipping in the Oct-Dec 2010 quarter Microsoft now had to overship in the Jan-March 2011 quarter to make up for this.

Normally for the Jan-March quarter Microsoft ships between 1.3-1.7 million consoles as shown in there fiscal statements............. in Jan-March 2011 they shipped 2.7 million consoles instead. There was no price cut for the 360 in Jan-March, there were no special offers, there were no mega blockbuster console selling exclusives released for the console either so why did the xbox360 go from shipping its normal 1.3-1.7 million consoles to 2.7 million consoles in that quarter??? The answer is simple, Microsoft had to overship to make up for undershipping the previous quarter.

And to further back up the overshipping of Jan-March 2011 you only have to look at the next few quarters of Microsoft's 2011 sales and compare them 2010's sales. If by some magic the xbox360 for no apparent reason suddenly became significantly more popular in Jan-March 2011, then this trend in sales should continue over the following months then right?........ From April-Sep 2011 Mircosoft shipped 4 million consoles, however from April-Sep 2010 Mircosoft shipped 4.3 million consoles. How does it make any sense that worldwide the xbox360 during Jan-March 2011 became significantly more popular by almost double compared to what it sold in Jan-March 2010 to then go on to sell less during April-Sep 2011 compared to April-Sep 2010? The answer is it doesn't make any logical sense and yet again confirms that Microsoft overshipped during Jan-March 2011.

Regardless of wether Microsoft overshipped in Oct-Dec 2011 it is already a fact that they overshipped in Jan-March 2011.

This poster breaks down to you and to all the "uninformed" in here that call people hypocrites.

He didn't break jack down for me because I wasn't talking about the details of the shipping/sold debate.  I was talking about the BEHAVIOR of the community and how attitudes about shipped vs sold, overshipping vs over-ordering and the indisputable accuracy of VGC's numbers tend to flip-flopped based on where the PS3 or 360 fall in that dynamic.  THAT is the hypocrisy I'm referring to. 

Dude, you just said "it's amusing to me how VGC has the 360 at 13.4 sold (vs 14.9 shipped) and the PS3 at 14.0 sold (vs 14.1 shipped).  Yet there aren't 4 threads with 200 posts demanding adjustments and preaching the importance of shipped over sold"

WHAT ADJUSTMENTS DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DEMAND?

You do realize that if the situation was reversed and the PS3 was in the 360's position, you'd a multiple threads with PS3 fans screaming bloody murder. This site has huge Sony bias.