Yeah, the point is that with the new metric, the total number at March 2008 is lower, but the change in the forecast made it more ambitious for this fiscal year. As KruzeS said, now they have to convince retailers to accept 10.29 million PS3 in 9 months, which I think is about what the Wii is shipping right now (granted, the holiday period will help them a bit, but it's still a 383% increase over their first quarter).
In practice, for total numbers after March 2008, I think this might not change things much. I say this because the change is 1.9 million down, which might well be the difference between shipped and manufactured units at that time. Unless they were planning on having loads of PS3 stored in their warehouse when they were using the "manufactured" metric. This is a very big "unless", because we can all see they are almost for sure going to fail their forecast anyway.
This is starting to get really confusing, I hope they don't change their metric again in their next report :P
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