PS5 Ships 19.3 Million Units as of March 2022, 70.5 Million PlayStation Games Sold

[Pionner]

RolStoppable said:

Pionner said:

No offense....but this sounds like a new excuse. I don’t know whether to defend vgchartz always being inaccurate, or people doubting PS5 sales. 

Once again, you cannot use that method with PS5. Whatever Sony ships they sell. There’s no PS5 stock anywhere. It’s been 2 weeks since March 31st where this sites data reports. Even if I believed that assertion, all those “unites in transit” would have been sold already. 

More importantly, when Sony reports shipped, it’s shipped to retailers meaning they already bought them and is in their warehouses. Not that consoles are still in transit. So that fact automatically makes that “unit in transit argument” factually wrong.

I can't help you if you are unwilling to understand how it works.

But I can remind you of a discussion from about three months ago when the PS5 scored a surprise NPD win and you said that VGC tracking a PS5 sales pace that will be in line with Sony's own projection of 2m for the quarter will prove VGC very wrong. Now Sony has confirmed that they could indeed not ship more than the forecasted 2m PS5 consoles for the quarter. There was some slight undertracking by VGC, but it was within the margin of error that the site set for itself. The general picture that the PS5 and XSX|S were neck at neck in sales during the first quarter of calendar year 2022 proved to be true.

I'd like to see that ZhugeEX statement where he says that shipped equates sold for the PS5.

I was talking about the way vgchartz was undertracking PS5 sales after we know they would ship 2M. Also that Sony could possibly ship more or less than 2M. I said it wouldn't line up with the results by March 31st. I was right.

By the way, using all this shipped vs sold amazing logic, the Xbox sales number should be a few hundred thousand lowered also then. There are a crap ton of Series S on shelves so yeah.