It's only estimates. A handful of retailers here and there are called up and asked about their numbers, and the totals are approximated from that.

It's not "pure fiction," since the numbers are based on some measure of fact. Obviously, as estimates, they're not likely to be spot-on, so of course the numbers would be corrected once more accurate data comes out.

They'll lose today, and again in March. I'll be happy to eat my words. If you are on Neogaf or in any of the sales-age threads they can predict this stuff within a few thousand units. We can revisit this tonight with an "I told you so" and again in April.

@bicfitness

I think the XBone will get March

Oh please, their estimates aren't usually THAT wildly off. So they've estimated that Xbone outsold Ps4 in its home region, a week before a big release...just wait for the global numbers in which Ps4 probably sells 80K-100K more than Xbone WW.

It won't surprise me at all if XB1 wins NA in March.

It would surprise me if XB1 wins worldwide in March. It doesn't take a psychic or insider to guarantee that won't happen. Not a virtual guarantee. A rock solid guarantee. It won't happen.

@silent Their estimates have been off by a lot the last few months. VGC over tracked the Xbox One 90k in January in the US alone. They have PS4 202,126
Xbox One 142,654 in US for February. So according to VGC the PS4 sold 70k less in February than January. I doubt it.

You do realize that npd is not 100% accurate, look it up, there is no way to track sell in versus shipped, not 100% atleast. Npd is just a bigger firm more professional, but the fact remains that it is never 100% despite who gives the info.

It's sad how much of a fanboy/troll you are. Idk why people like you think you know everything, when judging by 99.9% of your comments it's negative. If you love PS so much, stop commenting on Xbox articles.

BTW, only children block someone instead of having a normal/rational conversation.

Lol @bicfitness educated by @eonjay

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pandaboy

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how many PS4's are being held back for Infamous bundles. That should definitely spike sales the week it's released. I have a few friends and family members that purchased that bundle. Not just because they're Infamous fans but because they knew they could lock down a PS4.

All I can say is that they're still scarce here.

I believe Sony is controlling losses while they prepare for the end of their fiscal year at the end of the month. Sony was producing and selling 700k a week in Nov and Dec. They are averaging 170k a week since January 2014. If they aren't in stores, chances are they aren't in production. I would imagine production will ramp back up in April.

People do not understand supply, demand, second wave, repeat interest. Just think ps4 sold x amount so it will do it forever. The people who bought it are the hardcores, second wave has to be built by word of mouth games bring interest, plus some months are slow. Or demand is not there, there are ps4's in my city, they are sold out at most places, but you can still find em

@Death:

Sony produces about 1 million PS4s a month. without 400k that's 600k. divided by 4 weeks that's 150k. divided by two continents that's 75k.
Because Sony had to divert all available PS4s to Japan to have 400k for 1 week there, that means the US should now be getting extra restock instead of Japan: I'd predict 150k a week, as it was 0k for the last two weeks. just in time for Infamous.

If Sony can only produce 1 million per month, how did they sell 4.3 million in 6 weeks? They were shipping in batches and continously selling out week after week. Sony sold out of their initial supply within a couple days of launch. If they had built up a supply of 3.3 million consoles prior to December, why were stores constantly sold out?

Even if you were correct on the 1 million per month, with sales of 170k a week, there should be close to 1 million consoles in the retail channel right now. I think we can both agree that isn't the case.