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ethomaz on 14 January 2011

Boring... these are little adjustments... more will come in EMEAA with 306 down more 500k and PS3 up.

I predicted that weeks ago.

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RVDondaPC on 14 January 2011

Kynes said:

RVDondaPC said:

Kynes said:

KBG29 said:

ithis said:

KBG29 said:

I am willing to bet, that in terms of shipped numbers Sony will reclaim the number one console maker for 2010. Nintendo Wins the handheld sector by a major margin though. It will be interesting to see what happens at Q4 reports.

That's not really possible.

Why not?

These numbers say that sell though to consumers was 18.74M for Nintendo and 18.68M for Sony. Sony could have easily shipped more units than Nintendo with sell though being this close.

I expect this as calender year 2010 shipments.

Sony

PS3 15M
PS2 6.5M
Total 21.5M

Nintendo

Wii 20.5M

With this Sony can announce that they are the number one console maker. Handhelds are a different market.

This is a spin that would make even Sony PR team ashamed of.

Why is that? You think It makes more sense to ignore the PS2?? That's like AT&T coming out and stating they are the largest cell phone carrier because the Iphone outsells the droid and the millions of other phones that exist and are sold by Verizon don't count because they're not the newest and coolest models.

It's cherry picking at it finest. First, you compare two consoles to one, and you decide to eliminate of the comparison the DS and the PSP. This shit of handhelds aren't consoles is ridiculous.

It's not cherry picking. Video game console is a defined market. Sony sells the PS3 and the PS2. It's not their fault Nintendo stopped selling the Gamecube. It's not other cell phone manufacturer's fault Apple only offers the Iphone. It's not Google's fault Apple's Mobile OS is only on the Iphone compared to Android which is on many different ones. To ignore the PS2 would be cherry picking, because it ignores part of the defined market which is the video game console market. And handhelds and Consoles are two distinct things. You could put them together and call it the video game market but they are still two distinct markets as well. It's like comparing trucks and cars, they're both automobiles but they are also clearly distinct products and markets.

If we only consider the Wii and PS3, that's just fanboy banter that we all take place in but Sony doesn't give a shit about that, neither does Nintendo or MS. When someone is committed to buying a home console and purchases a PS2, that could have been a Wii sold or a 360 had Sony not offered the PS2 so the PS2 is very much a part of the console market. I don't know why you would choose to ignore that.