Perhaps this article belongs in the April Fool's thread. XD :)

they got it from either the 500,000 they manufactured, or the 2.4mil they shipped since that time

as of March 2007 Sony shipped 5.5 million consoles. WW retailers have sold 4.48 million. Now thats thats plausible from March which was like 3.5m sold to customers and now having 4.48m in 3 months is very plausible. I believe VGChartz is off by 60k? basically because this site cant seem to track PAL sales very well. I think all the consoles are probably off by 40k - 60k.

Sold to retailers, not to consumers when are people going to get that through their thick heads... As well Nintendo fanboys for bashing at Sony because they seem to be lying as for Sony fanboys for bashing (as it seems by mails which ioi receives at times) at websites such as this for showing figures of the PS3 sales which seems to be according to "them" too low.

omg I think my head is going to explode from the stupidity, sqrl get out the sig.

How much stuffing can one market take?

That's as far as I'll go with the stuffing comments LOL... I had a few others lined up but I wasn't sure how people would take my jokes.

Looks like Sony's market in Australia has dropped since the PS1 days...  I kid I kid...

Ah... Get over it.

You don't know no shit about Rasmussen. You've just been watching the media... They manipulate everything!...

Let me explain something ok:

1st) He missed 4 UCI 'out of competition' doping tests over a period of 18 months. As did about 10% of the riders in the peloton. He got some warnings about it... And he had to pay 10.000$ for those mistakes.

2nd) Some guy who comments on the tour the frans on Rai uno said he saw Rasmussen in Italy... That's just a bold claim! There's no proof!... That guy says he was in Italy, he (Rasmussen) and his wives' parents say he was in Mexico... They even say he was with em. But hey... The media likes drama, so they present that bold claim of that RAI UNO guy as a fact, but it isn't until its proven!

3th)... He missed some 'out of competition' doping tests, ill give u that. But he had lots of 'out of competition' doping tests,... All results were NEGATIV, which means that he didn't use dope!... Every day in the Tour de Frans, he had doping tests. All results were Negativ!... He was just a victim of the media and the chauvinistic Tourdirection, who only wants a Frenchmen to win the tour, in their BIASED battle against doping. Rasmussen became a victim of that by the Tourdirection, the Rabobank sponsor and the Media who presented the 'missed out of competition dope tests' as 'he used dope' which he hasn't. As was resulted in the test before and during the tour.

So, u don't know no shit... They ruined the guys life!... He gave his heart, his SOUL for the sport. And now they took everything away from him!...

 I don't "support" any of the videogame companies.  People that attach themselves to one over the other are pretty silly in my opinion.  These are large companies only interested in one thing, money.  The more competition, the better for everyone.  It would be nice if they all succeed to some degree.  The one reason I would like to see the Wii do well is because I think that anything over $300 for a game system is ridiculous.  I don't buy into the entertainment center angle.  I have other pieces of hardware for that.

 If the Wii dominates, next generation systems will be almost guaranteed to be below that price point.

 As for being rude.  How many of these threads must we all suffer through.  ioi just ran a thread on this yesterday.

no according to this the data is exactly the same time as Sony's financial data, march 31st.  There is no time difference. They have SHIPPED 4.48 million by the end of Q1 (end of JUNE), and MANUFACTURED 5.5 million by march 31st ACCORDING to SONY'S OWN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. 

This picture has a 6 million install base (not sure what install base is suppose to mean exactly) AS OF MARCH 31ST (the SAME DAY as Sony's financial statements).