This happens all the time... it's just shipment numbers as of Dedember 31st.
If you remember Sony Australia once claimed a 6 million install base worldwide about 7 months after launch..... They said "install base" but it wasn't even shipments to retail it was just produced (they had produced 5.5 million by March 31st 2007, and a further 0.7 shipped to retail in the following 3 months)