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ShadowLink93 on 05 February 2023
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HigHurtenflurst said:
ShadowLink93 said:

I know that up untill 2007 Sony reported production shipments and then changed to sold-in (shipped) but this is the only official data we have for PS1 and the first 7 years of PS2 so we just have to make do with what we have. PS2 numbers for fy0 are just March 4th to March 31st 2000 and the 4.3 million i've seen for PS1 i thought was from Dec '94 to March '95.

Yeah not much to do about it being production shipments, ultimately doesn't affect lifetime sales (well not much, the changeover year where Sony reported both production & sales to retail for PS2 shows them being 600k difference, not sure if units are getting counted twice as Sony never released a lifetime total)

I was just including it so people can make their own judgement about how fast PS1&2 sold early on in comparison to PS3/4/5... on that chart I linked for example the PS3s first two figures are 5.5mil & 11mil in production shipments, so that's 16.5mil vs the 12.6m hardware shipments from your table.

For PS1, the 4.3m is definitely until March '96... Sony's "Fiscal Year" naming is unusually based on the year it started in rather than the year it ended in like most other companies.... That's why FY99 has PS2 included and FY06 has PS3 included in it (whereas for Nintendo the Wii isn't reported until FY07, but both of them are referring to the same time period of 12months ending March 2007)

The reason that PS3 was over produced at the beginning was because Sony thought it would sell much more than it actually did and they weren't expecting the lack of demand. They intially forecast 6 million for Nov '06 to Mar '07 but only sold-in 3.5 million, however the PS1 and PS2 were in high demand from the start so they probably sold everything they produced and therefore the gap between production and sold-in was likely much smaller.