PlayStation Console sales have surpassed 600 Million

[UnderwaterFunktown]

Evilms said:

UnderwaterFunktown said:

You're ignoring the fact that the PS2 got discontinued during FY2012 (right around the end of 2012), which a) makes it not so strange for them to not mention it, especially since the report has no mention of the PS2 anywhere, not just in this section about sales decreases and b) makes it extremely unlikely they would ship more PS2s that year than the previous one with the system only being in production for 3 quarters and production likely winding down before that. You're essentially suggesting that they decided to speed up production in 2012 and then stopped all together shortly after that.

They may well have sold 4.1 million that year (FY 2012) or even more, which means that their sales have remained at least stable, and the fact that they're not talking about any drop in sales is already a much better indicator than the ending production in January 2013, which means nothing at all.

In addition, as ZhugeEx points out, you only need to use the 80 million PS3's as of November 2, 2013 to know that the PS3 couldn't have made more than 12.4 million in that same fiscal year.

And officially we know that it was at 64 million on March 31, 2012

They miss us its sales between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013

officially
Q1 April - June 2013
1.1 million

Q2 July - September 2013
2.0 million

Q3 October - December 2013
3.3 million

October 2013 it sold at
55K (NPD in US)
57K (MediaCreate in Japan)

We can say that during this month of October it sold in the best case 500~600K worldwide (with 400~500k for the rest of the world), knowing that it sold much better during November (415k NPD / 61K MC) and December (299k NPD / 103 MC) it's logic for the 2 months of the end of the year on the 2 most important markets.

As of November 2, 2013 Sony announces PS3 has surpassed 80 million worldwide.

So :

80 - 0.5 (October) - 2.0 (Q2) - 1.1 (Q1) = 76.4 million as of March 31, 2013

76.4 - 64 = 12.4 (between April 2012 and March 2013)

Which leaves us at least 4.1 million for the PS2 for the same periode

4.1 + 12.4 = 16.5 million (PS2 + PS3).

It's hard to track down the original source for most of these numbers except the 80 mil announcement. I believe the 63.9-64m is not an official figure but accumulated from quarterly reports so it could very well be off due to rounding, by how much is anyone's guess. But regardless it remains extremely dubious to me that shipments would increase in that final FY. I don't buy > 4.1 mil, but close to it maybe.