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MasterZack on 29 October 2008

PS3 will pas 360 may in the middle of the next year. At least in his timelife.



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theprof00 on 29 October 2008

wow rol, you actually are useful :P
thx for clearing that up!
it's just that sometimes people give us "newbs" one word answers and then berate us for not understanding how one word fits into the whole picture, but I can understand if said explainer has done so a thousand times before.
I don't find anyone at fault, it is just frustrating. :D



theprof00 on 29 October 2008
Linkzmax said:
theprof00:
I'd suggest scrolling up the page and reading kirby's post on VGChartz's methodology. Sony's (and MS's and Nintendo's) financial statements legally have to report 100% factual information. Firstly, there is no 100% coverage of all sales to consumer so that would be impossible to report. Secondly, the consumer is not Sony's customer, instead the retailers are.

Sony will be making shipments(sales to retailers) weekly to meet holiday demand. There's also a term, stockpiling, which means Sony has been holding back some of their produced units in preparation to sell more than they're able to produce in a single month for times of high demand, such as the holidays. This was also mentioned in their report as an increase in inventory.

Hope that helps clear some things up.

thanks, yeah i read the methodology a few times in fact.

I figured out that first part of your post just before you posted it, and the stockpiling thiing i guess was at the core of the matter.

thanks for taking the time linkz

 



PhalanxCO on 29 October 2008

Do we have to go through this every freaking quarter?



kirby007 on 29 October 2008
PhalanxCO said:
Do we have to go through this every freaking quarter?

sorry if I was a bit harsh but this is exactly what i think about the whole deal

 



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theprof00 on 29 October 2008

i kinda saw that in your responses kirby, which is why i think phranch got upset.
that is pretty funny though:
"Do we have to go through this every freaking quarter?"

its an endless loop. Just know that the people you tell now will tell others later. So you won't have to go through with it. someone else will :P



FishyJoe on 29 October 2008
PhalanxCO said:
Do we have to go through this every freaking quarter?

 

Sadly, it seems so.



TheSource on 29 October 2008

Do you really think Sony and the other companies would pay guys like NPD, Media Create, and GFK to track software and hardware sales if they knew how many gamers were buying their stuff from Best Buy?

They have no idea without talking to the stores or retailers its not like they have magical powers.

All they know is "X store ordered Y amount". So to them, it is sold. But for our purposes, it is shipped.

You don't go buy milk from a farmer do you? You go to a store so how would the farmer know who buys his milk? He hires someone to track it.

Same thing with shipments and sales guys.

The 16.84m is on Sony's Financial Site. Just add the numbers in the quarters and know that it is shipments for periods ending every three months. Data under the Q4 header is for the three months ending March 31 in 2009/2008/2007 respectively.



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deathgod33 on 29 October 2008

i love how all the nintendo fanboys are jumping in saying that its shipped and not sold to consumers without any proof.
its quite possible that vgchartz were slightly off, or it coulde be the same for sony.



 

 

 

 

FishyJoe on 29 October 2008
deathgod33 said:
i love how all the nintendo fanboys are jumping in saying that its shipped and not sold to consumers without any proof.
its quite possible that vgchartz were slightly off, or it coulde be the same for sony.

 

Maybe you should actually read the reports before foolishly opening your mouth.