These shipped numbers are good, but what I'm wondering is just how theses numbers are going to factor in the the next quarter's worth of shipments. We've already had several insiders claiming that they had 1000s of XBO's sitting in distribution warehouses. If these are slow selling months for consoles, and every warehouse is already full, shipment numbers are going to be low moving forward.
Is there any idea of the USA/ROW split?
The same happened with the Xbox 360 in 2006. They went from selling in 4.4m units in Q4 to 0.5m units in Q1.
Now at least here, MS have dropped the price of the Xbox One in both the US and UK (unofficial) so they will be looking to get rid of some of the stock and supply new stock throughout Q1. Don't expect it to be a high selling quarter though. There will be a very sharp drop, as always really.
That is exactly what I'm saying. The price cut was only in the UK and the US. Even then we know that PS4 outsold XB1 in the UK (Nov + Dec combined). There was just a debate about them hitting 10M shipped and now we're automatically saying 10million sold- through? People are inflating Xbox One shipments numbers drastically.
Not really, there was a debate about it but we were able to prove that 10m sold through+ was possible. see below.
I'm think it's somewhere north of 9.5 Million. But it's insane how some are suggesting an additional 1M on top of that.
We proved that in 2014 that the US + UK + GER + FRA were able to sell through more than 5.7m units. Add in the 2013 figures of 3m worldwide and you get 8.7m units as a minimum.
It's not hard to see that ROW (which accounts for 38 markets) would sell more than 1m in 2014.
Either way, it's not hard to see 10m+