PS4 Shipments Reach 63.3 Million, 3.3 million units between April 1 and June 30

[Barkley]

Lenny93 said:

Barkley said:

When you're talking the lifetime sales of a console until discontinuation shipments ARE sales.

That would only be true, if a shipment equaled a sale, it doesn't.

It's true because consoles always sell out of their shipments, have you ever heard of a console that shipped units that never ever sold? It doesn't happen. Lifetime shipments of a console = lifetime sales.

Any figure given for past consoles total sales is shipments. The only reason shipments don't equal sales during a console lifetime is consumer sales dictate the speed of shipments, so you can overship, thus consumer sales give a better indication of a products momentum. Lifetime you do not overship.