My Analysis of the Ps3 Numbers.

[Zucas]

psrock said:

Zucas said:

psrock said:
Sony overshipped somewhere though?

Did they expect to sell more in Europe yet sent less in America?

It's hard to ship 13 million when they have close to 3 million in the stores.

for insight as to what might happen take a look at MS's Q2 FY 2007 shipment numbers and Q3 FY 2007 shipment numbers (or Q4 2006 and Q1 2007).  This is the example I'm always bringing up, but overshipped vastly and in the next quarter, only shipped 600k. 

All I want to know is where are those consoles?

Maybe it's all those 250gb

Well same question as to where all the other PS2's and PSPs are where our numbers line up and still a large difference.  Just as ioi is saying above me, maybe they are classifying things differently that we just don't know about.  I mean it only seems to be Sony that has this difference.  Once again, I don't like accusing these companies of deception especially in financial reports where they have to very clear cut, but it's possible they are spinning a few things to inflate their numbers (which has been done before) and we just don't know about. 

I don't actually have an answer as to why there is a difference and I'm not going to start throwing out things I can't confirm, but all I can say is that this difference does exist and other trackers are saying the same thing.  I guess we could question whether the shortages actully exist (maybe something retailers are screwing up on).  But I really can't give a definite answer on that.