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Esparadrapo on 05 February 2026
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Panicradio said:
Zippy6 said:

These firms estimate a multitude of things, MAU's, installbase, consumer spending habits, etc etc. Shipments are reported by Nintendo/Sony. The 138m is not shipments.

As you asked ChatGPT previously in this thread about Xbox sales, you can also ask it about what "138m consoles outstanding" means.

You'll get a response including this: "In finance and games publishing, “outstanding” ≈ “active or existing in the market”, not merely shipped." "When a publisher says “138m video game consoles outstanding”, they are almost always estimating the installed base."

How is that possible?

In February 2025, T2 had reported the same chart indicating 94M+as of November 2024:

https://ir.take2games.com/static-files/3ae54582-44bf-4163-9024-4da314c31541

We do know that Sony had reported 75M shipped as of December 2024:

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/463967/ps5-ships-750-million-units-as-of-december-2024/

What are you making out of these data now in terms of Series sales referring to T2's newest 138M+ figure?

The level of deflecting trying to justify overinflated Series estimates is insane.

If VGChartz is having a hard time I can only guess Welfare is going into overdrive making shit up.