| bumidan said: We are taking Sony's actual reported numbers. 5.5 million + 9.24 million (end of Mar 2008) = 14.74 million PS3s shipped (sold to retailers/distributors) Hope that clarifies it for you. |
I'm suprised nobody else has pointed this out already. The problem with that is the 5.5 million number was from when the reported shipped from manufacturing plants(either to their own warehouses or their customers a.k.a. retailers/distributors). Starting FY2007(Which ended Mar '08) they switched their reporting method to shipped to retailers/distributors, which is the 9.24 million number.
Going by http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/07q4_sony.pdf shows that the 9.24 million is a 5.63 million increase. Thus FY2006 was 3.61 million and their reported total thus far is indeed 12.85 million(though iirc either MS or Sony increased the numbers of the last two quarters in some report by 60k each, but if it was Sony it's still a long ways from 14.74 million).
