Linkzmax said:
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). |
Linkzmax, I did see that in their notes.
Given that change though, I still believe that the 5.5+9.24 figure is the "correct" figure.
I think that 9.24 is adjusted to reflect the previous "mistake" of announcing the shipped from "manufacturing plant".
Therefore, I think that though they may have over reported the 5.5, they probably adjusted for the 9.24 so that the total figures will jive with their recognized revenue and profit.
That is the general rule of reporting revenue and profits in the financial sense.
This also applies to software too.
So I think pretty much what Sony has reported and will report from now on will reflect the LTD shipments of hardware and software to their customers and what they recognize in the revenue and profit announcements.
