PS3 - 4 million?

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Shinra said:
which threads? can't find them.

There are dozens of posts on this topic. Synopsis:

Sony has sold 4.48 million -- to retailers. The retailers buy the PS3s from Sony, so this is what Sony is talking about.

This site tracks sales to CONSUMERS from those retailers. Therefore, there are about 600-1000k PS3s that have been sold to retailers, but not have not yet been purchased by consumers. This explains the disparity. There are really three possible stats to track:

Systems produced
Systems sold to retailers
Systems sold to consumers

And each one will be different (the first will be bigger than the second will be bigger than third, specifically). Sony is telling us figure 2. VGChartz is reporting figure 3. Make sense?