PS3 global sales rocket to 47.9 million

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theprof00 said:

Hyruken said:

Ok i just noticed something with the PS3 numbers which don't add up. Or it could just be me being a mong!

They just said on the same quarter last year that PS3 numbers are down 0.2m.

Meaning for the same quater last year PS3 shipped 6.5m. Because if it did 6.3m adding 0.2m = 6.5m, right?

BUT

We now go look at the VGC numbers for the period from October to december 2009

6.9m PS3's sold.....

So even by Sony's own words VGC had it over-tracked by at 400k in the oct-dec quarter of 2009 http://www.vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons[]=PS3&reg[]=Total&start=40097&end=40181

 

Which means those additional 400k did not exist. They were not made thus not included in the shipped numbers.

Is that right?

I'm pretty sure there are consoles on the shelves besides the ones that are shipped, like, for example, the ones shipped the quarter before.

Yea, that would seem to make the most sense.  Plus, something I've always wondered, when vgchartz does adjust sales figures, where exactly do they put the adjustments?  Do they go back and adjust each week from where the problems were or do they plop it into a couple of weeks?  This is the only thing I've always had trouble with in terms of understanding vgchartz adjustments.  But yea, there's stock in the stores before the holidays that likely don't sell until the holidays.