1. I think they're sticking with fiscal year. Otherwise the numbers for PS2 and PSP would have to be much higher.

2. Unless Sony now requires every single retailer to report all of their sales regardless of whether or not they're placing an order, I don't think they can legally use Sell-through to consumer numbers in a fiscal report.
If they can and they are, then it's another downgrade in the numbers, similar to the ship->sold downgrade.

I think they do and don't use NPD ...

If NPD says something they like, for example the PS3 is selling at a faster rate than the XBox 360 did, they will cite NPD and release a press release. Otherwise they will release their internal numbers regardless of whether they match NPD or not.

An example of this is Killzone's sales numbers ... There is a forum post where a representative from Sony claims that Killzone sold more than 2 Million copies, yet there is no evidence of sales like this from any tracking firm. (With how poor initial sales were for Killzone, it would have to have amazing legs to make sales like this but the game falls off of the charts a couple of months after its release which implies that it didn't have strong legs).

Not sure what you mean by partially true... They've sold 7.19 consoles out of 11 million... so wouldn't it already be partially true?

The official forecast is 14.57 million by March 31, 2008 LTD. Officially they have only sold 2.02 million as of September out of 11 million.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/07q2_eleki.pdf

jack tretton = john lucas - plausibility

ahah, they forecasted 11 million sold on top of the other previous 3 for a total of 14??

What I meant to say is that partially true doesn't mean anything. I could take an empty glass and say its full. I would be partially true, its full of air. "Partially true" is basically blind fanboy speak for "(insert company name) says, it must be true".

What the hell does SONY know that we don't? I mean how can they manage 400+ a week after the December? There has to be some price drop or surprise Halo 3 like game coming out to pump those numbers. They expecting huge downturn in sales for the Wii and 360 because if they are at 400+ what the hell will 360 and Wii be at? Doesn't even seen possible unless it is the holiday season. Just seems so misleading unless they know something we don't.

What a bunch of bull. Tretton just made an ass of himself.

Is there a chance that the prediction for the total hardware sold might become true? And the software one.

i think it is highly unlikely to sell that much but they might end up close