As the Title implies, I decided to create a single thread comparing shipments and sales(according to VGC of course) for the 360, Wii, and PS3.(And now DS and PSP) Shipment data from Nintendo and Sony was easy enough to find, but older numbers from Microsoft was a chore to find. Sales data was very simple thanks to the Hardware Table feature. I believe everything is accurate, but if anyone notices a typo or something off, please let me know and I'll fix it. I'll also keep this post up to date each time the Big 3 release their statements and every month or so to account for VGC adjustments.

Microsoft X360:

Microsoft has a different LTD shipped total between the sum of the quarters and the sum of fiscal years. This is due to the Jul-Sept '06 quarter and rounding in the 2007 FY.

Nintendo Wii:

Sony PS3:

Nintendo DS:

Sony PSP:

*For the PSP, FY '04 and '05 are production numbers as the actual shipment numbers aren't published anywhere. This will cause PSP shipped numbers to be inflated by the units that were counted twice,(when produced and when shipped) but the exact amount is anyone's guess.
** The PS3 shipped total was ~38M through June 2010, so this would put the PSP shipped total at 62M through the same date.  

Nintendo 3DS:

Sony PSV:

Good job.

This is an excellent thread Linkzmax and goes down in my bookmarks.

Will refer to this many times in the future

Thanks for the effort!

very nice this will help answer some peoples questions

there seems to be a lot of consistency here... sony ships high nintendo ships mid ms ships low, also notice at one point nintendo had 3 mil extra consoles so i dont get what the big deal is right now with sonys shipped numbers

the problem is the gap between sold and whats been shipped is too big for too long when it comes to Sony. If the is that many PS3's on shelves then the shops would not accept more shipments. If you remember the PS3 was supply constrained not so long ago and looking at the shipments vs sold, Being supply constrained would have been impossible with almost 2 million PS3's in the wild.

So VG chartz is consistently, inconsistent with ps3 sales what exactly is causing that

AFAIK, and if wrong please correct me, there is a small but important difference between what Sony considers sold, and what MS or Nintendo considers sold. If I'm not mistaken, Sony considers a PS3 sold when they receive the order, but MS or Nintendo provide the number of consoles not in their hands anymore. This could explain that bigger difference between Sony numbers and VGC numbers, than between MS or Nintendo numbers and VGC numbers.

I don't know in the console world, but in networking devices, there is a 4 weeks delay between your order and when the product leaves the manufacturing plant. This 4 weeks delay could explain that difference.

if you take away a third of the shipped for the last one of Sony the tally does become 314,260 instead of 2 million but I'd need evidence Sony counts it differently then MS

314260 or 1519370?

I'm not sure where I've read it, I think in one of The Source analysis. Maybe someone in the know can confirm or deny this.