PlayStation Console sales have surpassed 600 Million

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Tober said:

Evilms said:

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.

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).

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.

If we want to go super crazy, we could find out how much the PS3 was in every country during the previous year mentioned, and their final year. And from there calculate how many PS3 were sold, then subtract that from the 16.5M to get PS2.

That is gonna be a lot of work, and already feels exhausting typing this up (hahaha).
But that would be how I determine the numbers to be honest.