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BKK2 on 30 July 2008
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FishyJoe said:
Griffin said:
Why do we have the PSP at about 36mil sold to consumers, when Sony have the system at 41.56mil to retail for the end of June. There are less PSP sold each month compared to the DS and there are less of them in stores, so there should be under 2mil difference between our numbers.

Why do we have the PS2 at 119.5mil for the end of June when retail sales are over 130mil.

Where did you get your total from? Because from this presentation by Kaz Hirai at the end of June 2008 the PSP was at 37 million.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/info/Strategy/pdf/presen_03.pdf#page=3

Are you using the old numbers and adding to them? In 2007 Sony changed their accounting method from production shipments to retail sales.

Those were FY 2007 Q4 figures. PSP had sold 34m through FY 2007 Q3, and sold 3.42m in FY 2007 Q4, which makes 37.42m (34m was rounded off to 1m, so there's a margin of error of 500k though).

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They only give out shipments from the previous earnings release, which in June was FY 2007 Q4. Everytime I see an interview with Sony close to an earnings release where the interviewer asks how many they've shipped Sony says they can't until answer after the release.