VGC staff, pls. help me understand this..

[Steve 3.2]

Chubear said:
At the end of sep 2006, the PSP was reported to have sold roughly 22.9 Million units to the general public from retail stores. So how come on the main page it shows the PSP as selling less than 21 million units to date? Are the updates for the PSP a little left behind or what?

Where are the sources of your information?  I went back through Sony's financial reports and totaled shipments (not sales to end users) up to Sept 2006.  (That's Sony's 2nd Q 2006.)

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/05q4_eleki.pdf 

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/06q3_eleki.pdf

Total shipments by that point were 22.94M worldwide.  Are you saying that every last PSP shipped by the end of Sept. 2006 was sold?  If that was the case, then why were only 1.76M shipped between Oct. - Dec. 2006?

The fact of the matter is that there were and still are plenty of PSPs on store shelves and in warehouses.  I believe this site's numbers are fairly accurate on sales to consumers and we'll know a lot more when Sony releases their annual report on May 16.  (Yes, later than usual due to the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.)