The Credibility of VGChartz

[Max King of the Wild]

Carl2291 said:

Max King of the Wild said:
Carl - can you link me where Sony said Ps3 was down YoY because that just does not add up. Ps2 shipments were in a decline all last year and sony only shipped 900k during 4th quarter and 600k 1st quarter. Ps2 shipping 1 million in the 2nd quarter (more than 4th quarter shipments) after being in a decline 4 quarters in a row would be nuts.

Only just seen this, sorry. I cant link you to the official release on my phone, but I can link you to a thread on Sonys report.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=145942&page=1

Read this post - http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4705616

"This decrease was primarily due to lower sales of hardware and software of the PSP® (PlayStation Portable) and PlayStation®3"

The previous Year, PS3 shipped 1.8 Million in the same Quarter. Thus we know that PS3 was lower than 1.8 Million in the combined 2.8 for PS3 and PS2.

Still obscure. First of all they are using revenue to measure this number. They say HW and SW to PSP and PS3. SW never sold well enough on the PSP to mak a dent so I assume that is target towards the Ps3. Ontop of that the PSP has shown massive HW drops while only shipping 900k in Sony's Jan-March numbers so I doubt they got anywhere near those 1.8 million shipped from last years April - June quarter so I'd think the HW numbers more targetted to the PSP. Shipped trends show the Ps3 pretty even. Wouldnt make sense for the Ps3 to sharply decline  while the Ps2 sharply increases. Include the fact that Sony shipped 70 million ps3's in Oct that would mean they woud had to of shipped damn near 2 million in that single month