Kasz216 said:
NJ5 said:
FishyJoe said:
11m LTD by March 31, 2008 is a made up number. It's not the number published in Sony's own financial documents. The only people perpetuating this number are the uninformed.
The OFFICIAL number published in Sony's own financial statements is 11m for the fiscal year of 2007 only. The previous fiscal year, as reported in Sony's own financial statements, the PS3 recorded 3.57 million shipments.
Therefor the total number of expected PS3 shipments as of March 31, 2008 is 14.57 million.
Let me repeat, 14.57m is the expected PS3 shipments as of March 31, 2008 and is clearly specified in Sony's OFFICIAL financial statements. http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/07q1_eleki.pdf |
FishyJoe is right. Even though this has been repeated countless times by different posters in several threads, most people still seem to be posting without this in mind. |
That's because most of the people reporting these things don't get that... cause they are lazy and just filling headlines. Unless Sony is suddenly trying to pull a slick trick and say they meant 11 million total instead of 11 million for the fiscal year. |
Personally, I'm fully aware of what Sony has previously claimed.
I'm also fairly certain that Sony is going to do a little fiscal slight of hand, use people's natural confusion about shipped, sold to retailers and sold to end users, to reduce their shipment estimates by 3.5 Million units while still having people believe they met their target. Sony will be very careful not to do anything illegal, but they will phrase their adjustment in their third quarter fiscal update in a confusing enough way to distract most people.
