| shams said: (my figures may not be precise either, as I don't have time to chase down the exact figures - but they will be close). Sony had sold approx 3.0m PS3s as of (end) March '07. For them to reach their target of 11m sales in this fiscal year, they need to reach (approx) 14m sales by end of March '08. ... We are now two weeks in January - and Sony have just hit 9m (worldwide) sales. They need to sell approximately 5m PS3s in the remainder of this quarter (say 4m, if you believe they have shipped an extra 1m units than sold this year). I figure they have around 11 weeks to reach 5m - or approx 450k/week (worldwide) from now onwards. |
Your figures are off by 0.6-2.5 million units. Sony's report for FY07 said they "shipped" 5.5 million units as of March 31, 2007 and "sold" 3.6 million units. A quarter later they redefined their definition of "shipped", which could explain away 1.9 million of their debt.
But when they originally made their prediction, it was clear that, by their definition, they projected 16.5 million units shipped total by the end of FY08.
