Sony Q4 and FY 2011 : PS3 1.9m shipped

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kowenicki said:

Turkish said:
PSV is at 1.8m, it sold 600k in march if sales were 1.2m at the end of february.

???

explain

shipments were 1.2m by end feb.

Think its been said in the Earnings call Kowen! http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-10-sony-earnings-call-reveals-worldwide-ps-vita-sales

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That's an insane amount of money to lose in a year, let alone one quarter.

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DirtyP2002 on 10 May 2012

Serious question. Please respond without a wall of text!

Can you give me a reason why the Xbox 360 should have more consoles in stores than the PS3? Especially with the PS3 selling marginally more during that time of the year (less days of supply in stores).

I just don't get it, why 800k in stores is reasonable for the PS3 while 1.3 million is just fine for the Xbox 360.

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Barozi on 10 May 2012

kowenicki said:

sully1311 said:

kowenicki said:

Turkish said:
PSV is at 1.8m, it sold 600k in march if sales were 1.2m at the end of february.

???

explain

shipments were 1.2m by end feb.

Think its been said in the Earnings call Kowen! http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-10-sony-earnings-call-reveals-worldwide-ps-vita-sales

So 1.8 shipped and 1.65m sold.... thats 150,000 in supply which is approx 19 days worth.

Overtracked?

A bit but Kaz left out a few regions and he said "Europe" which is for Sony I think only the 5 biggest European markets ?

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theprof00 on 10 May 2012

DirtyP2002 said:
Serious question. Please respond without a wall of text!

Can you give me a reason why the Xbox 360 should have more consoles in stores than the PS3? Especially with the PS3 selling marginally more during that time of the year (less days of supply in stores).

I just don't get it, why 800k in stores is reasonable for the PS3 while 1.3 million is just fine for the Xbox 360.

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I already wrote my theory as to why. It's a logical theory but I don't actually know if it happened or not. According to possible motivations, it would make sense to do so, but still without word there is no telling.

Basically is that, for whatever reason, be it:

1) Economy of scale
2) Compensating for analyst oversights (Analysts think the fire 2 is dead because of its shipped number being so low in the last quarter)
3) Expecting to sell many consoles via 99$ strategy
4) Attempting to outship ps3
5) etc
6) Expecting more sales

....MS possibly overshipped to its own stores.

In this scenario, what likely happened is that MS overshipped pre-Christmas, so that in turn, this last quarter should have been lower. Instead, they boosted the lower shipped number by shipping to themselves in preparation for this pricing strategy.

Otherwise, I don't know where the consoles are. NPD could be acting wonky?

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cyberninja45 on 10 May 2012

kowenicki said:

Turkish said:
PSV is at 1.8m, it sold 600k in march if sales were 1.2m at the end of february.

???

explain

shipments were 1.2m by end feb.

The 1.2m reported during the western launch were sold to customers I believe. Boasting about shipped (sold to retailers) numbers for launch makes no sense.

1.8m reported now is sold to retailers.

Edit: WOW if thats the case it's quite probable that the vita has yet to sell through the initial western shipment! 1.8M(minus Japan) WAS THE VITA'S LAUNCH SHIPMENT FIGURE!!?!

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cyberninja45 on 10 May 2012

pezus said:

cyberninja45 said:

kowenicki said:

Turkish said:
PSV is at 1.8m, it sold 600k in march if sales were 1.2m at the end of february.

???

explain

shipments were 1.2m by end feb.

The 1.2m reported during the western launch were sold to customers I believe. Boasting about shipped (sold to retailers) numbers for launch makes no sense.

1.8m reported now is sold to retailers.

Edit: WOW if thats the case it's quite probable that the vita has yet to sell through the initial western shipment! 1.8M(minus Japan) WAS THE VITA'S LAUNCH SHIPMENT FIGURE!??!

How do you know?

I'm not absolutely sure hence the question marks. But its probable and it supports my agenda :D

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