I think it is very unlikely that PS3 will sell 3.7 million units by the end of march

are these the same people who said ps3 wouldnt reach 7 mil by the end of 2007? i think itll be short but not by a whole lot...

You're getting to emotional about it, you're emotions dont = truth. SCE make up about 9% of Sony. Sony's overall predicted operating profit this fiscal was $2.6billion and even with SCE's losses they are expected to beat that!. Maybe you should follow the quarterly conference calls for shareholders from Sony instead of reading individual SCE execs interviews and surmising Sony spins, twists the truth to shareholders etc?.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony sold about 10 Million Units

My emotions have nothing to do with it.  Pretty lame to get emotional over this stuff, which is why I just don't understand fanboys in the first place...I digress.

That is nice and dandy that you mention they will beat their operating profit, but they could have easily doubled it.  Shareholders notice things like that.  Just because a company as a whole is not going down the tubes, people who have invested money in said company would like to see larger returns than just matching their operating costs.  Without the incessant bleeding they could have had an enormous profit.  You clearly aren't looking at this from an unbiased POV, otherwise you wouldn't keep adding fuel to your flamed out arguments.   

Sony's stock price has risen about 60% in the last 18 months. The medium term prospects for Sony many analysts say look better than they have done for quite a few years. The losses in the game division are just short term and are caused by Sony PURPOSEFULLY slashing the ps3's price (unless theres more cuts). Actually as things stand from October onwards the ps3's losses are expected to be minimal. Sony realise they gave Kuturagi to much power. They've sacked him. And the price cuts are Sony attempting to get back in the game. No shareholder expected Sony to have kept the ps3 at $600 just because it meant more short term profits.

We have to remember that the 360 and PS3 will possibly experience severe drop offs after the holidays as neither is selling out their current supply and its safe to assume both with exhaust a great deal of their demand with the holiday sales where as the Wii can be expected to continue with decent legs due to the demand not being met. Though, all we can do is wait and see.

I have said for a long time that at the end of the fiscal year that the PS3 will be right at 11 million. It may be a tad short, or maybe a smidge higher, but it should be right around there. Keep in mind that the really heavy xmas numbers will be coming in the next couple of weeks and then a couple weeks after that for those who received money/giftcards for xmas and will proceed to buy a PS3 with that money.

But jjseth, Sony have not claimed that they will have sold 11 million PS3's by 1st March 2008, but that they will sell 11 million this financial year. They are still over 5 million away. Reckon they can sell 5 million in three months?

starcraft, did you read what I wrote? I said that I predict the PS3 will have 11 million sold by the end of the fiscal year LTD.

And from the quotes that were pasted in the orginal post on this thread never said that it would be 11 million for the fiscal year only unless there were parts missing that I didn't see. I took it to say LTD and not fiscal year only. Then again, with all the anti-Sony people that troll this thread, it's not shocking that you are up in arms against anything that could be taken as good news by Sony. Keep on bashing.