Round or about April 24 as the source said is when Nintendo's report usually comes out, Sony are usually within a couple of days of nintendo and ms usually comes out last I think.

 And ist most likley wrong on Sony, as usual.

Nintendo and MIcrosoft already have their reports scheduled for the 24th according to their pages.

Sony usually does it later, it may even be in May (but probably a few days after MS/Nintendo).

What's your prediction?

Nintendo is a customer of NPD so it's hard to imagine Nintendo's financial reports validating anyone over them.  Basically Nintendo knows how much of everything was sold to retailers and relies on NPD's numbers for sold to customers (North America obviously).  At least that's my understanding of it.

Interesting about the losses incurred by Sony from the USD weakness, which could make a US price cut more difficult, but over the last year the Euro has slightly strengthened by 1 Yen against JPY from 158.75 to the Euro to 159.75. So x-rates shouldn't be a problem for price cuts in Europe.

This also fits well with what Pachter was saying about Nintendo making sure they had demand supplied in Japan and Europe before US due to lower profit margins on US consoles.

 However shipment details over a long period (such as a quarter) indicate consumer sales to quite a large degree of accuracy and we know that the numbers are 100% correct. Basically with the information you can get from them they give a better indication of sales to consumers over a long period of time than tracking such as VGC or NPD.

Or at least I think thats how it works.

On Topic: Sony & MS - $100M profit.

Ninty - Ridiculous profit. 

@ op who on earth would know that information when the financial statements are released on sony, nintendo and microsoft.

Nintendo- Massive profits, great sale of old games(pure profit), WiiFit and SSBB massive sales too, great sales for SMG and TP. Makes a boatload per Wii and DS sold, and they sold a lot of each.

Sony- no major 1st party games, higher than expected HW sales(means more loss) - software sales not good in comparison to hw sales, possibly due to blu ray buyers. A loss, not to huge. But a loss.

Microsoft- making slight amount off each console, good 3rd party sales, no major 1st party sales (except legs for a few games... I can them making a profit this quarter, not a huge one, but a proft.

Also I am pretty sure the DS Lite was released at 129.99 and was making a proft then. I have no figures for this but I believe Nintendo could sell a DS for 79.99 and still make some profit, or a least break even.

The Wii was making 50 dollars per console at launch, I would guess that the profit margin is a LEAST 80-100 now, or more. I think if Nintendo wanted to they could sell the Wii a around 149.99 and break even, or be close to it.