psrock said:
Immortal said:
postofficebuddy said:
Immortal said:
How much did the PS3 ship in Q1FY? I presume it's in first place so far considering its huge lead over the other consoles in the last quarter.
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It shipped 2.42 million in Q1 of the fiscal year and 3.5 million in Q2. It's 950k ahead of the Wii so far for the fiscal year. MS's fiscal year starts in July but lining up the March-September quarters PS3 is ahead of 360 by 1.62 million. Assuming they do hit their projection and the January-March 2011 quarter is similar to this year than shipments for the holiday quarter should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 million. Assuming Ninty hits their 17.5 million Wii projection holiday shipments should be around 9.5-10.5 million. MS is a question mark. We don't have any projections to gauge off of.
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Thanks for the information.
Looking at recent sales via VGC/NPD/MC, I don't think that the PS3 will actually hit its target; EMEAA would have to have astonishing sales for this to be accomplished. By sales, I should think that PS3'll finish around 2.1m or so in Americas for the quarter and 550k or so in Japan. I really don't see EMEAA sales being twice that of Americas in the holiday quarter. On top of that, Move was likely boosting sales at the end of last quarter and substantial shipments to be sold in early next quarter were probably made at that time, reducing shipments from this quarter. I'd therefore expect shipments to be around 5-5.5m rather than 7m. Unless Sony has something massive up its sleeves, I simply don't see how they expect to outsell Wii's March 2010 quarter substantially.
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So, Sony who shipped these consoles who just said they are on track to 15 million, but you seem to know better.
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No, I do not claim to know better. Based on the data that we have, I merely conclude that I find such a target rather difficult to attain. This is a Sales Discussion forum; if we do not make predictions of our own and simply follow what the hardware manufacturers claim, there is little purpose in discussion.
Also, it's not as if hardware manufacturers are always right; Nintendo expected Wii to ship 26m early on last year and it ended at 20.5m.
