TheRipDizz said:What are you going on about? Why would they be risking their company by doing that? There's no lieing or fraud if they leave exact shipment numbers out of their reports for a quarter or two. It'd actually be a really smart thing to do for the company image as the only way to eventually extrpolate it is a year or two down the road on that rare occasion when these companies state their LTD's.
they have to report profit and loss for their divisions... if they didnt sell as many consoles, you would notice it in their games division P&L numbers. Simply hiding the "shipped" total does nothing and has no benefit. If you are releasing your financial report, there is no reason to not release your shipment numbers. You can't "hide" missed sales by just omitting shipment numbers.
These companies state their LTD's at LEAST once a year, if not every 4 months.
Sony was getting embarrassed for 2 straight years in the US after launch, all of a sudden they want to hide their sales?