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Should the PS3 sales numbers be higher then what we have posted? http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps3_e.html thats as of 12/31/06 0 1.84 million. Now when Sony says shipped they mean sold to customers not the actual retail shipments numbers. So, after looking at sales numbers from Japan and the USA for the last two months.. I think the numbers might actually be more around 2.30 million not 2.15 million.



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Sony announced in mid January that they shipped 2 million PS3's. They missed their projection. NPD data for the USA was under one million through 2006, while Media create was around 470,000 in Japan. At best, Sony had sold 1.4 million or so PS3's in 2006 to customers (gamers). Even adding in the Americas totals to the USA though, it was likely 1.25 or 1.3 million sold. Keep in mind Nintendo said it shipped 4 million Wii's in 2006, but retail problems lead to 3.19 million Wii's sold in 2006.



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Since when have the numbers that Sony announces been sold thru rather than shipped?



Phil Harrison said it in an interview a while back.



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And you believed him??? Phil Harrison who said that Rumble is 'last gen'?? Go back and ad up the Japanese sales information week by week from launch, it's not hard to find the numbers for each week, and the NPD numbers for Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb... it's pretty accurate according to my research, and VG Charts is a little bit optimistic as well. I think it's closer to 2 million if not slightly under.



ssj12 said: Should the PS3 sales numbers be higher then what we have posted? http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps3_e.html thats as of 12/31/06 0 1.84 million. Now when Sony says shipped they mean sold to customers not the actual retail shipments numbers. So, after looking at sales numbers from Japan and the USA for the last two months.. I think the numbers might actually be more around 2.30 million not 2.15 million.
No way on earth. Sony have *no way* of knowing the real sales figures - maybe he means "sales to retailers" - retailers never pass their sales figures back to manufacturers, they just place more orders when they feel like it (i.e. either when they run out, or when they want to stockpile). Sony have never quoted "consumer sales" figures.



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