Yeah, this pretty much confirms the X360 as the 2nd place for the 7th gen.

I too dont think Xone in under tracked, but X360 definitely is. The software still is going strong. Its probably at least a million ahead of PS3.

i knew the author of this post from the title.

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Freudian slip? LoL. if you want to make sure there is no accidental or deliberate misinterpretation you should write "...for XB1 and a dying 360."

Anyway, 3.3M on shelves across both systems is not as big a discrepancy as it looks. I wouldn't be surprised if Xb one had 1.5 million on shelves at present. That's about the maximum extent of what I think might be in the retail channels so for a what's possible analysis I think you can say 1.5M of that 3.3M is Xb one.

So that leaves 1.8M for 360, I agree that's too much, but not so much as to be an outrageous discrepancy. Even for a dying system 1 million in the retail channel is within the bounds of possibility, considering all the markets and retail outlets they need to have covered. 360 is still being actively marketed, indeed here it's probably being marketed more strongly than XB one. All the boxing day sale ads were PS4 and Xbox 360 for instance, no Xb one boxing day promotions. In terms of what's possible I think 800K-1 million on shelves is theoretically possible. MS could, for instance, have decided to ship out half a year's worth of projected 360 sales. And if MS is looking to kill off 360 manufacturing this year they might want to get end of life inventory out into the retail channels sooner rather than later.  

360 could be, IMO, up to 1 million undertracked, which is only 1.16% error. but even at 1.5M it's still only a 1.74% error. If it wasn't for the fact that this error rate is the difference between being ahead of PS3 and being behind PS3 would this thread actually exist? Or would we say, actually VGC's LTD tracking of 360 isn't too bad. IMO, objectively speaking if the LTD for a console on VGC is within 2% of actual sales (which no one knows with 100% accuracy) that is good enough for all practical purposes.

It should be dying those numbers are already bullshit, I can't believe people are actually using those for predicting Xbox One shipments/sales

There's a decent chance that 3.3 mil 360's and xbone are sitting on selves between the two of them but trying to figure out what's on retailers' selves is difficult at best.

I'm still waiting for something that confirms your theory. Do we have PS3 shipments of 2014 until September that say so, at least??. How was the situation a quarter ago for PS3 and X360??. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't remember X360 had better shipments back then against PS3 (during 2014) with official numbers for both.

I think considering going forward 360 will be selling about 100k per month, 1m in the channel for 360 is far far too much.

Xbox One could be at 11.1m or 11.2m, but yeah that is a lot of under tracking for the 360.

The funny thing is that the US is already over tracked by more than 1 million (I think it was 2 million), so it's doing way better in Europe/ROTW.

Where in the OP can I find PS3 sales?