Evilms said:
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 Q2 July - September 2013 Q3 October - December 2013 October 2013 it sold at 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). |
Sony's comment on lower PS3 revenue was attributed to lower pricing not to lower shipments nor unit sales. We cannot assume based on this comment from Sony that the PS3 sold less or stayed flat compared to previous year.