@Gebx,
The simplest way to explain this is that if you read the Sony financial reports it is clear what they meant. I think the problem here is a bit of a language barrier with the article Diomedes1976 linked and the fact that some of these news outlets are not reading closely like they should.
Due to the way the press operates they are primed to repeat false information when nobody corrects them (in this case I doubt anyone writing either of these articles cared how correct it was). Please trust the mods that they know what they are doing...or in this case you can just read the Sony financial report and see what is said for yourself =)
What these really boils down to is a way for Sony's numbers not to look so bad because of how they handled the last quarter. This is not the same as saying Sony is doing bad, all it is saying is they did a lot of production in the last quarter for this quarter, so in order to "shift" some of those produced units from last quarter to this quarter they changed to tracking sold to retailer.
I think I am going to make a graphic....
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