Sony confirms PS2 has sold over 160 million

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killer7 said:

bdbdbd said:

Most likely the systems Sony had as spare systems and spare parts due to warranty, have now been wrote off from their books. So now the "sold" number is their manufactured number. Basically just what accounting requires in such cases.

But you also have to add in the fact that demo units shipped to stores where also included in this "160,636,000". And demo stations are NOT FOR SALE. Thats fact. Demo stations get sent back to the manufactor. Nintendo does that as well as Microsoft. As someone working in a shopping center i can confirm this. What counts is SHIPPED units. Because they are for retail sale and can be sold through to costumers. In Sony's case with the PS2 these where 155,1 million units! If they add demo stations (please note there where bigger markets even ordering 2 or more of them), the PS2 Slim was added as well so it makes the "unsellable PS2s" number even bigger. So 160 million as a shippment number is far from reality. No matter what Laydon/ Ryan or some Sony guys say.

Demo units, unsold systems and so on. They need to write them off. They're shipped somewhere, maybe garbage, but that¨s not important. I believe the other manufacturers count the demo units as shipped systems, but maybe write them off earlier than a decade after the manufacturing of the system has ended. The point is, that I don't think Sony has done anything wrong. It's just that  the sold/shipped/manufactured is calculated this way in their accounting.