Kresnik said:
TWRoO said:
Hmm, well I am pretty sure that's a mistake (unless Sony started selling new PS1s in the last 2 years) Sony's own websites ended PS2 shipments at 102.49m in FY2005 (they took the info down a couple of years ago though, and annoyingly PS1 is not in their historical figures)
Not sure on the PS2 figure but the shipment figure is actually just short of 158 million... I am not certain if that is a mixture of sales (read shipments to retailers) and "production shipments" though, which would warp the numbers a little around 2000 and 2007 when Sony switched reporting figures (ie a couple of million consoles may be counted twice in the number... still should be over 154m though)
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No, I agree with you, if I were doing it I'd just use the official Sony figures. But it's kind of a different issue because it's the VGChartz database that needs updating, or maybe not if it knows something we don't.
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Well unless ioi knows something we don't, the PS1 figure is definately a mistake... I just totted up the shipment figures (Sony handily gave a cumulative number through FY2000, then I had to add each year) and it came handily to the 102.49 million figure.
The VGC PS2 figure is meant to be lower than the shipment figure because PS2 is still active... it's the content of Sony's shipment figures that I am unsure of because they kept swapping between reporting sales (which are actually shipments to retail) and "production shipments" which is an internal tracking method, and it's possible that during the transitions between the two methods consoles get counted twice... it is also possible that "production shipments" include all created machines, which means any Sony sent out as replacements for faulty models would also be counted.
