@TWRoO: The reason for Sony changing the method was purely financial (or to be more specific, to make them look better).
When financial statements say that X number of units are being manufactured, they've being "paid" by Sony and the investments (what it cost to produce them) are counted into the financials.
When the financial statements say how many of them have been sold (as shipped, as we use the word), the manufacturing costs of the units in the warehouse isn't count in the numbers, but this includes shipping costs for all of the units in question.
So, let's assume that the moment Sony changed their reporting methods, there were 2M PS2:s and 2M PS3 in the warehouse unsold.
Let's assume that manufacturing costs were 50 per PS2 and 500 per PS3.
This would mean that without making the change in reporting, Sony would have reported 1,1B more loss that quarter.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
