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Forums - Sales Discussion - VGChartz has undertracked PSP sales by 4.5 million!

MikeB on 13 February 2009

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but look at software! 100 million units difference!


Agreed, worldwide software sales undertracking seems monstrous. Hope this improves...



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im_sneaky on 13 February 2009

That's it, everyone move back to nexgenwars :/



 

 

Sephiroth357 on 13 February 2009

I love the whole shipping stuff.




Phrancheyez on 13 February 2009
BengaBenga said:
Someone with over 600 posts should know by now that companies report shipment numbers.

 

True..but so you're saying theres 5.5 million on shelves?

I'd say VGChartz has it undertracked..by quite a bit.



TWRoO on 13 February 2009
mehm said:
scottie said:
Who was it with the gif in their avatar explaining this situation? Sony used to count all manufactured units as shipped, and thus the 5.5 million is a combination of a small amount of VGChartz undertracking, stock on shelves, and replacement units under warranty

 

You said it in your own post. They used to do it, but not anymore. They shipped 50m PSPs to retailers.

Well the problem has been that people have combinced the two different methods to try find the total to retail... which is very innacurate, so scottie COULD have been right.

However, I am positive this is (finally) the actual shipped figure we ave wanted all this time, I have suspected the PSP was undertracked quite a while, in fact I was expecting ioi to notice and bump it up before Christmas (which is why in the broken prediction league for LTD HW as of Jan 3rd 2009 I put the PSP above the Wii, even though the trends of the figures at the time showed it would pass it handily)

That and the "wrong" way to do it, ie combining old product shipments, and new retail shipments actually gives a figure of 52-53 million.

So yes, the PSP is undertracked... probably by about 4-4.5 million.

 



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outlawauron on 14 February 2009
TWRoO said:
mehm said:
scottie said:
Who was it with the gif in their avatar explaining this situation? Sony used to count all manufactured units as shipped, and thus the 5.5 million is a combination of a small amount of VGChartz undertracking, stock on shelves, and replacement units under warranty

 

You said it in your own post. They used to do it, but not anymore. They shipped 50m PSPs to retailers.

Well the problem has been that people have combinced the two different methods to try find the total to retail... which is very innacurate, so scottie COULD have been right.

However, I am positive this is (finally) the actual shipped figure we ave wanted all this time, I have suspected the PSP was undertracked quite a while, in fact I was expecting ioi to notice and bump it up before Christmas (which is why in the broken prediction league for LTD HW as of Jan 3rd 2009 I put the PSP above the Wii, even though the trends of the figures at the time showed it would pass it handily)

That and the "wrong" way to do it, ie combining old product shipments, and new retail shipments actually gives a figure of 52-53 million.

So yes, the PSP is undertracked... probably by about 4-4.5 million.

It's probably in those "Others" region that you don't get much data for.



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ChichiriMuyo on 14 February 2009

I am laughing my ass off at so many of you guys right now it's not not even funny. 44.5+4.5=49. That means the guy already took into account the different tracking methods. You guys are putting the 5.5 into his mouth and/or doing the math wrong.

Of course, a number of people here are wise enough to catch on.

Anyway, I'm not sure I'd call it 4.5 million, but it's certainly under-tracked by at least a couple million units. Who knows if there are a million or two units on shelves or in retailer warehouses/backrooms.

The software, though, yeah. That's should shut some people up pretty good methinks.



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haxxiy on 14 February 2009

There are 51.6 million PSPs shipped. It's retarded to tell there are ~6 million on the shelves and the actual number isn't close to 50 million or the like.



 

 

 

 

 

Serious_frusting on 14 February 2009

^^^ What he said



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Trent on 14 February 2009

So PSP Has Sold 50 million?