If Sony pulled the lead, they would have been screaming the numbers off every rooftop. There would be no mention about any 'policy' about not releasing data before NPD.

It's funny how they have no policy when it comes to percentage increases, but release actual data, heaven forbid!

Now, by PS3, does sony mean PS2 and PSP in addition to the PS3, like the last time?

Jhlennon, actually, I thought sony already did comment, with percentages...if they know the percentage, then they must know the actual numbers. MS just came out with a response to Sony's so called percentage increase. I believe Sony was the one tooting their horn first.

Sony quoted percentages but that didn't tell us anything other then having us speculate blindly and achieve nothing.

Waiting for the NPD data is all one can do at this point.

Any time a company uses percentages in relation to a previous period as a replacement for hard numbers, they have something to hide. It usually means they're fudging numbers through percentages (look, we're xx% over last year with no reference to where "last year's" numbers came from... probably an intern in the basement) or that someone else in the industry is handing them their ass.

In this case, it's probably a little of both. If they really had great numbers to show us, you can bet your ass they would be standing outside their corporate headquarters with a bullhorn.

Yeah, rocketpig hit it right on the head. Obviously there is a reason they have misleading press releases, for people like you, who bought into the BS, clearly they wouldn't do that if everyone was smart enough to know better, instead of being blinded by the fanboyism for their console of choice. The rest of us know better.

Dont take NPD sales as the actually sales

Wasn't PS3 originally supposed to butcher xbox360 and Wii at this point of it's life anyway?

The main point is that 2:1 or 1.75:1 doesn't matter at all - PS3 has a big FLOP sign on it's forhead, and has to start outselling x360 soon(in america), and even if it does, it has a lot catching up to do

Then what sales "are" the actual sales? The NPD is the best source, you need to accept that. Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony all release offical reports based on NPD data and NPD data is regarded as the most accurate tracking hardware/software in the US. That is just the way it is.