PS3+PS2 outsell 360+Wii by 1 million

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Turkish said:

man-bear-pig said:

Turkish said:

man-bear-pig said:
But these are shipments....not sales. What if the 360 and Wii were over shipped last quarter and subsequently we're under-shipped this quarter? It's a silly comparison to make.

Why would 360 and Wii overship last quarter? Those look like normal numbers.

I'm not saying they were, I'm saying they could've been. I'm just saying that shipment #'s for 1 quarter don't mean a lot because it doesn't show you the big picture.

Thats true, but quarterly shipment numbers have always been compared, why do people have such a problem now?

Well generally quartelies can fluctuate quite a bit differently than sales, last year PS2 shipped more in Q1 than it did in the holidays (1.4m, 1.2m, 0.9m, 0.6m for Q1-4 respectively). To make a better comparison you need to look at the flow of data (ie the past few quarterlies compared) or if you want single data sets the yearlies are better (well, the yearlies made by adding up the quarterlies, because MS fiscal year is offset by 3 months which might make a difference)

Still impressive though, as I suspect the PS3 makes up 1.7-1.9 million of that figure, which is roughly equivalent to Wii + 360 anyway.