zhao3gold on 10 January 2013
I think Sony saw the chance to overtake X360 by the end of this year for shipment figure and they didn't want to miss it because it could be a great milestone for them. So they decided to ship more consoles up to 8million even the market didn't need that much.
It is the same thing when MS shipped more console in order to hit the LTD 10million mark back to 2007 (or 2006, I don't remember.)
But that is just my thought.
