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DonFerrari said:
badskywalker said:

Produced does not equal shipped
Produced means either already having been shipped or prepared for shipping
Shipped does not equal sold
Shipped are consoles either waiting on shelves to be sold or those that have already been sold
Produced > Shipped > Sold

At least this is my understanding.

True, but produced to shipped would be couple days or at most like couple weeks difference. So produced means almost the same as shipped very shortly. Even shipped to sold is quite close as well, couple months difference usually.

Well it kind of depends on orders from retail stores, whether they choose to air freight it or ship it by boat (PS5 has chosen the former for launch), if stores do not sell fast enough, then there is a backup of production and space, which leads to decreasing production. I'm not saying that this will occur for the PS5, I'm just saying that it is possible for produced to be very different form shipped. I actually doubt the PS5 will suffer from slashing of production or overproduction, but I'm also pretty confident that it won't do as well as some people claim. I've seen a couple claim 20 million in its first year, which would be very interesting, but doubtful.