TheBigFatJ on 06 February 2008
| djroberts said: Official Sony earning report. If you look carefully you'll see that they switched from reporting units shipped to recorded sales in Q1 of FY07. This doesn't mean they've sold 10.5 million though as the FY06 numbers still represent shipped. |
'Shipped' previously meant manufactured, and sold means "sold to retailers' which is interchangable with shipped. Because they changed the way they count, they counted 1.9 million units twice -- they were 'shipped' as of FY07, then they got 'sold' in FY08 (the 5.5 - 3.6 gap represented in FY07 reportedly 'shipped').
