leo-j said:
The ps2 has sold over 140million consoles according to sony at e3, so im sure consumer sales wise its hit 140million. |
While I am pretty sure I have told you this at least twice before (perhaps not directly, but I have explained it in many threads that you were part of)
Here we go.
The claim that the PS2 had passed 140 million IS A LIE, or at best a huge mistake. David Reeves was I believe the purpetrator of that falsification, and the truth is that as of the end of March 2008 the PS2 was just passing 130 million consoles according to the sum of Sony's fiscal statements.
There is a slight problem with those fiscal statements unfortunately, in that before March 2007 Sony reported produced consoles, since which they have been reporting sales to retail. The problem with that lies in the fact that produced will always stay 1-2 million ahead of the shipped (sold to retail) figure because of course they need to be produced before they can get to the shops. Thus the problem is that when you add together the produced figure from launch to March 2007 with the shipped figures thereafter, you are actually counting at least 1 million consoles twice. That is why the two different types of figures are kept seperate on the website Sony has to show shipments.
Admitedly with such huge figures, a 1-2 million difference isn't that importan for the PS2, as all it means is it had to wait 2-3 extra months to pass 130 million.... which it has now done. The figure for the PS2 as of the end of September is 117.89 million produced consoles from before March 2007, plus 17.74 million shipped since then.
This comes to 135.63 million which should in reality be taken down 1-2 million so as not to count consoles twice... to somewhere between 133.63 - 134.63 million.
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There is however an additional problem with using the produced consoles figure from before March 2007, because that figure could (we don't know for sure, but it is likely) also include PS2s that have not actually been shipped to retail, but were sent out by Sony as replacements to faulty consoles, which for the PS2 will be quite a large amount.... I would estimate at least 15 million consoles, most from launch years (2000-2001) will have broken, some of those owners may have not bothered to replace it, some may have replaced it from a store, but of those who sent it in to Sony, I would guess a good chunk of them were sent replacement PS2s (I think more than half would have had PS2s repaired rather than replaced though) And I will admit this is pure guesswork, but I highly doubt less than 5 million PS2s have been sent out as replacements.... a figure that should really be taken off the PS2 total shipped figure, bringing it down to about 128-129 million as of the end of September.
