PS3 Is Undertracked?(Sony shipments out)

[Malachi]

mehm said:

Malachi said:

If I remember right the figure Sony was giving for the PS2 before was shipment to warehouse, not to retailer. Which mean it accounted for replacement unit and other that wasn't necessary sold to retail.

 

I thought we agreed in that old thread that those 131.3m were normal shipments, because production shipments were over 133m at that time. And I doubt that the difference is more than 2 million now, because the PS2 isn't produced as much anymore. I don't think that there are 4 million systems sitting there , when they maybe produce 500k a month.

 

I wasn't in that thread because if that was the case I wouldn't have agree. A difference of only 2 million between the production number and the sold to retailer number on a piece of electronic hardware that sold over 100 million unit is much too low. Again, the PS2 either had a really low failure rate or Sony didn't replace unit that were broken during the warranty.

They have to produce those replacement unit you know...