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MikeB on 17 February 2010

Rounded it's ~30 million as it's not near 40 million yet.

Sony sold 33.5 million PS3 until the end of 2009. (So 5.5 million more PS3s than the XBox 360 sold by the end of 2008, despite the extra delay for countries other than Japan/NA and the difference in entry pricing)



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ArkZero on 17 February 2010

If this is true, then it means that Sony overshipped.



Neos on 17 February 2010
MikeB said:
Rounded it's ~30 million as it's not near 40 million yet.

Sony sold 33.5 million PS3 until the end of 2009. (So 5.5 million more PS3s than the XBox 360 sold by the end of 2008, despite the extra delay for countries other than Japan/NA and the difference in entry pricing)

Hilarious. You just had to post the damage control eh? You just couldn't let it go..



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donsterydo2 on 17 February 2010

I wonder what will happen to all that fanboys that screamed that VGC undertracks PS3 :p



Arius Dion on 17 February 2010
ArkZero said:
If this is true, then it means that Sony overshipped.

But some continue to tout PS3 shortages...



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Munkeh111 on 17 February 2010

Well we know they have shipped 33.5m, so it is clearly not undertracked, the number now is approximately 30m



Seece on 17 February 2010
Neos said:
MikeB said:
Rounded it's ~30 million as it's not near 40 million yet.

Sony sold 33.5 million PS3 until the end of 2009. (So 5.5 million more PS3s than the XBox 360 sold by the end of 2008, despite the extra delay for countries other than Japan/NA and the difference in entry pricing)

Hilarious. You just had to post the damage control eh? You just couldn't let it go..

Indeed, I agree the 30 mill figure must be wrong for other reasons.

But since when did companys not paint the brightest picture? They shipped 33.5, they would say that, not 30 million. No company would round DOWN sales .. for goodness sakes MikeB I wish you would read back your posts before you hit the button.



 

nordlead on 17 February 2010
Demotruk said:
nordlead said:
lol, ok let's not jump on the under/over tracked bandwagon yet. People like to use varying terms to describe all sorts of things. Anyone remember the graph where the Wii install base dropped? They were counting active players, not units actually sold.

Installed base is not a vague term though, it's pretty specific. "Active user base", yeah, tougher to determine, but "installed base" has always meant the amount sold to customers.

but that isn't true at all.

Here, "install base" -




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Severance on 17 February 2010

well they said near 30 which is true? , 31 is near 30 million.



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