PS2 beating the PSP, the king is still alive

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 12th Sep 1999 to 03rd Jul 2010:

2,306,037 PS3s on shelves ?

2m in channel doesn't sound far fetched, especially since PS3's no longer supply constrained.

I am really starting to question Sony's ship numbers. Via NPD their Apr-Jun PS3 sales were 636k. In Japan I believe they've been averaged about 20k/week, so times 13 weeks =260k. So lets estimate about 900k in the USA Japan.

So where did they ship another 1.5 million?? Even if you assume Europe was equal to the USA in sales, thats only 600k more. And then yes I understand there's a few more markets too, but those are the biggies. It strains credibility.

Wondering if Sony is double counting some systems shipped like they used to do with PS2 or something.

Operating loss of $43 million for Networked Products and Services. So much for that Nikkei article.

bullshit ps3 is definetly in need of adjustment if 360 was less than a mil behind shipments i would say ps3 would be around the same probably a million undertracked considering there only selling 120k a week 2.3 mil on shelves would take like 4 months at that rate to sell out and i doubt they overshipped that much at all and wow at ps2

Holiday season begins in a couple of months. So they could sell those units easily in that period.

Actually it sounds a bit excessive.

2.3 million (well actually 2.4) happens to be the amount of PS3s shipped this quarter. If they didn't ship a single PS3, it still would have sold the same amount I guess.

Isn't shipments = sales as justification for adjustment arguments grounds for a ban these days?

360 is badly supply constrained in most regions at the moment, old stock is drying up and the S models sell out within hours of hitting shelves.  360 now is where PS3 was nine months ago supply wise.  PS3 stock is now plentiful though...

2m in channel is not excessive for a healthy platform.  And in channel doesn't just mean "on shelves" fwiw, that also means in transit, warehousing and other logistics of the retail chain.