I do beleive Sony overships the PS3 console by a million units or so, but the main reason why the difference between the units shipped for 360 is only 3 million more then the PS3 is because Microsoft recently made the 360S, and in shipping fewer 120G models. This is because most people want a new 360S, and the issue is Microsoft is selling every unit on the shelf. They cannot produce as many 360S as consumers demand.

So give it a few months, Microsoft probably wants to overship their 360S's by the fall in order for retailers to have enough inventory for the holidays. For now, it just released a new model, and is having troubles producing as many units as consumers demand. I hear, 360S are still selling out in North America, and obviously Europe.

@ Micheal-5

There is certainly an overstock of arcade 360 and 360s models in my city. Kids still seem to go for cheap arcade units around here.

All consoles seem to be plenty in stock here, PS2s, all current models of 360s, PS3s and Wiis.

Dude if VG chartz are accurate in any way there are over 6 times as many ps3s in stores then 360s and thats just not the case their under tracking ps3 theres no denying that and I suspect their numbers for 360 are too high too

the thing is they can't over ship that much, stores would buy em the consoles, and they actually on shortages and they have NPD back up to prove it.

it's undertracked somewhere

best thread ever

funny how sony releases these numbers and everyone here is bashing on them saying that sony is lying or some shit. Id rather go with what the company whos making the product and selling them has to say about the sales figures than this website thats mostly wrong than right.

Gotta love how quick some people are to jump the gun.

As Michael-5 said :

360 is pretty much poorly stocked right now (they had to make place for the 360-S which is selling like pancakes)

As the rest of people who make sense said :

Sony has so many distribution nods that they just stuffed their own channels with ps3s not even paid for (they probably didn't see the X-S coming and didn't anticipate the slowdown in sales).

Or perhaps we're undertracking it in the hard to track regions.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3559681

Although Sony probably is stuffing the channel to a certain extent.

How ironic that a few months ago they were low on units

But like what other people say, I don't believe they 'overshipped' because... retailers wouldn't take it

M-5: There were, and still are, large supplies of any XBox models in shops in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, ever since the 360S arrived in shops.

And Fighter: Do you even read what utter bullshit you are writing? Obviously you have no clue as to how Sony (or any other mass-manufacturing) company sells its products so please stop inventing this crap.