By the way Sony has all the data from NPD,charttracks,MC etc...plus the inside information about sold to retail,commercials reports etc.They may spin it to look better but to think Sony doesnt know what happes ...its not very clever.

Aw...

The truth hurts doesn't it?

That's so typical of people of your ilk - can't engage in a civil conversation, must resort to insults.

Oh well, such is the nature of those that can't accept being on the losing team...

@Diomedes It has already been stated by Sony that the 5.5 mil is not the same reporting method as what they do now, i'm sure you've been told enough times.
on the last financial report [end of june] sony had retailer sales at 4.28 million, and you cannot read consumer sales into a financial report. In fact everything tied together with that report... they had retail sales at 4.28mil, the 3 months prior [1st quarter] they had 0.71mil retail sales, meaning as of April 1st 07 retailers had bought just 3.57million.
there is no way you can spin the 5.5 million number into meaning retail sales.

if you read the thread about the Financial Times report you'd have seen vgc has the numbers pretty damn close.... for instance the FT report added NPD and GfK numbers up till the end of July and Media Create till end of August and got 9m Wii, 8.9m 360 and 3.7m ps3.
if you do the same with vgc numbers [minus UK figures because GfK doesn't track them] you get almost exactly the same with about 9m 360 [slightly over] 3.7m ps3 [bang on] and 9.2m Wii [overtracked by 200k, which is not too significant but it is over]

so thats 3.7m as of 7 weeks ago [3 weeks for Jp]..... are you saying ps3 has sold 1.5 million in 7 weeks? those are Wii numbers. try lie [or argue if you are still not taking it in] you way out of that.

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Well, regardless ...

Sony has a long (LONG) way to go to make there estimate of 11 million PS3 systems sold between March 2007 and March 2008.

^ true, because like i said, if its to retailers they need to have a LTD of 14.67million and i doubt retailers will be willing to buy so much extra stock after last xmas with over 2 million spare 360s.

and if its sonys old method [meaning consoles made] then sony will have made 16.5mil and i doubt by March they will have sold much more than 10.

[above statements are assuming sony isn't mixing retail and made numbers in 1 statement]

I know thats why I never responded until you mention that.

And the thing is the original poster never responded anything else in this thread. He use this as flame bait to start wars.

Typical.