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TWRoO on 28 December 2008
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leo-j said:

Also vgchartz shows that the ps3 has sold almost 10 million consoles in 2008, and the year isnt eve out.

IF WE GO by April which is when the fiscal year starts? The ps3 has sold 7.4Million consoles to date, and thats consumer sales, and the year isnt out, and the fiscal year ends in march.

Yes April is when Q1 starts.

7.4 million, add in 2 weeks to round out Q3 and the PS3 should be over 8 million in sales.... can it make 2 million in sales for Jan, Feb and March?... I don't know, we shall see.

But once again, shipments /= sales (certainly not for the PS3) sure they even out if you look at a big enough time span, but 1 quarter the sales might exceed the shipments, with the following quarter being the opposite to counterbalance. My reasoning is that last year Sony had good reason to put lots of stock into the market for Q3 and Q1.... in other words shipments were more than sales for that period. This year they don't have the ability to stuff much more than they sell for the period.

I am not saying I will be right, I am just saying it is possible Sony will fall short of their 10 million target.