Which global platform total is more accurate?

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TWRoO said:

It can't have been retailer inventory as Sega wouldn't have mentioned it (unless Sega had their own stores like Sony do), Sega were having to sell their inventory at discounted prices to the retailers.

8.2 to 10.6m does seem like a lot... but if you look back in the PS3s past it wasn't much different at launch.... by March 2007 Sony had produced 5.5 million machines, but the shipments to retail were only 3.78 million (and sales according to VGC just over 2.8m). Dreamcast had a decent launch, Sega may have entered into a contract after FY ending March 2000 for Dreamcast production that was too high, and it wasn't until the Christmas period when the PS2 released in the West that they had obviously overstepped themselves.

Hmm, reading it again I guess it could be retail inventory and Sega were offering retailers cashback for units they couldn't sell... but it's not specific enough to know for sure.

To me it's just like japanese sales. Once the game leaves the top 30 it's obviously going to sell more, but we'll never know. So we take its last number as its final number until something says otherwise - like a press release or top 500 type of thing.

This is the final shipment. No other number has been given, so it's final to me. I trust it way more than any other. It could have sold a little better... but since we'll never know we must use this one.

Anyway, I was very sad when I discovered that. If 10 million was already unfair to the system, imagine 8.