Sony says "active worldwide install base of 21.3 million PS3"

[Grooski]

seece said:

Grooski said:

For crying out loud, when Sony release info showing VGC figures being a little off, the fanboys automatically believe Sony's figures are wrong, or misinterpreted differently, and believe VGC figures are more accurate?????

Sweet jesus, the guy plainly says, the installed base. No one has ever counted shipped to retail as installed base. It is probably a measure from registered PS3 serials. If not everyone registers their system, the install base figure is actually higher.

VGC is undertracking, that can be certain.

 

Christ, so you think 21.3 (every PS3 shipped as of December) has been registered? and if so they may have sold more than 21.3! How many PS3s do you think are sold??!!

 

No, I can tell you nowhere near all PS3s are registered, same goes for 360's and Wiis, heck I'm sure millions of console owners don't know anything about registering their console ...

 

 

Oh come on!! Sony shipped figures are for Dec. Jan shipments in the order of 400k make shipped to date figures around 22 mill. Install base of 21.3 mill means 0.5-0.7 million in the channel. Exactly what we'd expect.

An installed base means exactly that. Units counted as sold to consumer and "installed". Not shipped to retail. Not held in distribution and not sitting on shelf space.

How would you know how many PS3s are registered?? I tend to believe Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft rather than anecdotal evidence from a forum. The fanboy cr*p in here on both sides is getting real old real fast.