| TheSource said: We were a little bit high on PS3 in lieu of Sony announcing it had sold 14.41m PS3s to retailers worldwide through June 30, 2008, since sales of consoles to gamers lag behind sales of consoles to retailers. |
Also note that it is actually > 14.41 as the various Bravia givaways (68k in Australia alone) were never in the retailer distribution chain. Technically Sony "sold" more than 14.41 but we are talking in the 1% level so who cares...
Apparently ioi reduced the PS3 numbers downwards, feeling his sold was too close to shipped. Strangely he didn't do it with the X360 numbers although the same problem exists there (sold too close to shipped). I'd guess that for any console roughly 600-800k units are in transit anywhere (in transit meaning sold/not yet sold, on shelves/in shipping containers(wherever).
