Are the PS3 numbers accurate?

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anonymous said:
I'm not trying to cast any doubt on VgChartz methods I'm just curious about the PS3 numbers which seem strikingly low. If it has in fact sold under four million at this point does it have any chance of breaking ten million by year's end? Can someone lend some context to this and tell us roughly how many 360's Microsoft had sold at this time? I understand the the holiday season is approaching, and that Sony is bound to sell many PS3's at that time, but it seems like a stretch to predict six or more million being sold over the holidays.

I'm just surprised. I don't follow Sony's numbers, but I had assumed it was doing much better than this.

God no.

It will be doing well to hit 7.5-8m by the end of the year. Unless there is another surprise price cut.

August, September, October - PS3 will do well to hit 500k-600k in each of these months.

November, December - say 2.5-3m combined. Which is pretty good for any console over the holiday period. 

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Grand total: 3.8m + 1.8m + 3m = 8.6m

That's an ultra-optimistic, upper ceiling IMO for the PS3. I think my initial predictions were closer to 7.5m. But there are numerous other threads that discuss these predictions anyway.