What number you expect see in the financial report: 5.5M or 7M???

For me is petty clear.

Sony give us the only number they have now... 5.5M shipped figure of the first two weeks after launch... the same with PS3, Sony don't have the number yet.

For the financial quarter the actual number will be revelead and my point is how much the second shipment is? 1.5M, 2M, 3??? I don't know but I expected number over 7 million shipped for 31th Dec.

LOL I'm wrong and you are right ;).

True.. lol

Mario Kart (Wii) has solver over 25.8 million copies. lol!!

Forza 3 outsold GT5 in America this week. lol!! Forza 3 has been out for 62 weeks. Just shows how weak the game is in the U.S.

Now if we jump over to EMEA, it has sold 181K. I suspect Japan sales will be lower then the U.S.. So probably about 300K this week and 1/2 of that next week. I still don't see GT5 surpassing GT4 in sales in it's lifetime unless Sony is nice enough to rebundle GT5 again next holiday.

GT5 has been bundled as well in EMEA region. Not much of a difference. The U.S. bundles are over now though.

They repeat numbers all the time...?  I don't get why you find it odd now.  They repeat numbers so they make sure people hear them, and when people expect to hear about the product and have no new numbers.

I mean, you don't think it'd be even stranger that they've sold exactly how much they previously shipped?

What are the actual odds of that?  It would mean they sold through their shipments, and shipped more (or haven't shipped more, making shipped still accurate.) yet none of that new shipment has sold.

That's... extremely unlikely.

This thread gave me a migraine reading it.

Now, GT5 is on its second shipment in Japan where a few people here keep calling it a flop, but somehow think Sony hasn't shipped new copies in the place the game is doing great. What's sad is the fact people defend these things depending on the console they follow.

It makes more sense then Sony has sold exactly as much as they've shipped previously and none of their second shipments, or that the combination of new and old shipments somehow magically adds up to the first shipment... which is another thing being suggested and seemingly based on console following..

It could be eithe rof the above but it being neither and just and old number is by far the most logical assumption, considering retailers always talk shipped, unless tracking data is mentioned it's silly to suggest it's actually sold.

Really?  I mean, you have been on this site longer then that.

I mean, you were around when Ioi had to freaking ban people from talking about shipped numbers on the forums because people were doing the EXACT same thing for console sales.  I believe it was the PS3... that or 360.

Either way, how often does this happen and threads like this happen?  Pretty much nonstop all the time.  Heck, there is a nother one about Kinect as well... though thankfully said article actually has a retraction where Microsoft clarifies it is sell-in.

When was the last time one of them that didn't quote a tracker was ever actual sellthrough?   Pretty much never right?

I think Sony's shipped more after that 2 week benchmark, but I also don't think these figures are sold through.  The two statements aren't mutually exclusive, Sony's just using an old figure.

And Japan is a flop, 2nd shipment or not.  It's sold in the same range as RGG4 and Hokuto Musou (550k-ish) which is something I think NO ONE really saw coming.  I was given hell for saying it wouldn't crack a million, but even I still figured like 800k plus. :/