pezus said:
S.Peelman said:
pezus said:
S.Peelman said:
Italic: According to Wikipedia, the PlayStation ended at 102.49 and was discontinued on March 23rd 2006. The source for that sales figure is Sony themselves and published March 2007, so I guess that's correct.
Bold: Yes, it is stretching it I agree. And I'm optimistic, I say it'll still do past 4m next year  . However, if there's one thing Nintendo should be copying, it's Sony distributing it's stuff all around the world  .
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Bold: Where do you see that? I see the discontinued date, but where is the source that was published March 2007?
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It is source #6. The footnote is next to the 'Units Sold' number in the infobox.
The source takes you to one of Sony's publications called PlayStation Cumulative Production Shipments of Hardware through this nifty thing called 'the Waybackmachine' because apparently the original web page doesn't exist anymore (you have to wait a few seconds before it finds it).
Anyway, you were correct about the 102.5 number in 2005. By that publication, it seems like that was their final shipment. Bringing it up from 101.73 to 102.49 for a last time. The source Wikipedia has for the discontinue-date (source #5) seems to be from an article by GameSpot, so that's a little less reliable than the Sony publication, but sadly I can't find anything else for the moment.
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Well if it's true they discontinued it a year later in 2006, then it might have shipped 104m like VGChartz are claiming. Would be interesting to ask ioi or someone why they have it at 104m exactly.
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I have no idea where the 104 comes from.
Sony's figures must be true, else they could've gotten into trouble with investors for example. I am puzzled however, why does the report end in 2007 when is was discontinued in 2006 (though there are no new shipments in that time)? :-S
EDIT: Maybe there are 2m PolyStations included 
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