| killer7 said: 160- 162 million is BS and we all know that. 160,636,something is the final PRODUCED number if we where to believe this "in loving memory" story wich i doubt for PSP for reasons i stated numerous times. Fake or not we don't know. But even if this number was true, they are talking about PRODUCED units. That includes demo kits that where sent to stores wich get sent back to Sony and CANNOT be sold to costumers because the systems are not made for home use (as someone working in a store i can confirm you this!!) and get sent back to the manufactor (that goes not only for Sony but also for Nintendo and Microsoft, even Sega- they even had their regulations that you need to send it back in a post box and remove the original package) so they won't be sold to costumers. They count as "produced units". So as you see, not every unit you produce is made for costumers use so you can't sell them. That also includes systems that break during production and units you send out to magazines for testing. As you can see, even if 160.636... was true, you can subtract a good portion of these systems as they talked of "produced" and not "shipped" units. How many of these? I don't know. But there are millons of stores world wide who had a demo station or even more. Heck the PS2 slim was a demostation as well. So 160 million+ shipped FOR SALE TO COSTUMERS is highly debatable. The question is, why Sony does not give uns their "shipped to retailers" number as they did with their previous systems expext PSP and Vita?! |
Allow me to make things even more confusing for you. Did you know that the console sales numbers as reported by Sony includes consoles that were returned, refurbished, and sold again? This way, they can squeeze multiple sales from a single produced unit.
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