The 480m figure for software is wrong - someone hacked / miscalculated Sony's figures for the September 2010 quarter, raising the total by 16m units. About a month ago the latest Q2 figure changed to 51.9m units on Sony's documentation http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps3soft_sale_e.html. Q3 is the December quarter, and we all know it wasn't a mere 15% bigger than the September quarter with GT5 & COD: Black Ops doing 13m or whatever on PS3 alone, plus the usual holiday rises and other big titles.
PS3 SW shipments were 350.5m through September 2010 - see the official shipment results thread, on a 35m quarter and then 57.6m games shipped in the December 2010 quarter, for 408.2m units lifetime. Actually, someone probably just did 408m instead of 480m for December 2010 figures lifetime. Given Sony's errors I'd imagine through March 2011, PS3 software shipments are 430m - 440m units lifetime.
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