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pezus said:
Seece said:

Yeah it's from IDC.

Unless you think PS2 went from selling 600k in one quater, to nothing for 3 consecutive quaters including a holiday one, then PS3 was not at 77m in January.

To be fair, PS2 shipments do not increase in holiday quarters anymore. Still, we are talking two quarters of shipments here. One of which had PS3+PS2 shipments around 3m if memory serves me right...

We've had 4 q's now of PS3 + PS2 combined figures.

Mar 2012 - PS3 LTD 63.9m
June 2012 - PS3/PS2, 2.8m
Sep 2012 - PS3/PS2, 3.5m
Dec 2012 - PS3/PS2, 6.8m (77m)
Mar 2013 - PS3/PS2, 3.4m

You're right PS2 fluctuates through the year, the 4 q's before Sony started combining look like this.

June 2011 - 1.4m
Sep 2011 - 1.2m
Dec 2011 - 0.9m
Mar 2012 - 0.6m

So obviously it was on a downward trend, it was still selling hundreds of k each Q though. And Mar 2013 is obviously a big portion of PS2's, likely to do with PS2 being discontinued and Sony counting future? stock or some other metric.

That and you need to take into account what PS3 did the previous year when trying to figure out what PS2 has done.