So to clarify then they shipped 6.3m PS3's right? VGC has the period at almost 6.6m PS3's sold.  Which means we should see it adjusted down by 300k correct?

Toyota lied about life and death matters relating to it's accelrator issues, and it was proved. You're telling me Sony cant lie about ship numbers that nobody besides a few message board junkies even care about?

Who would even investigate that? "Oh hi FTC, I want you to investigate Sony, a Japanese company with internal documents written in a foriegn language you cant understand, about their unimportant console ship numbers!!!"

FTC: " Are you crazy?"

Again look at Toyota, they were very good at stonewalling US investigators about life or death accelerator documents. Forget ever getting to the bottom of meaningless Sony console ship numbers, even if somebody asked, which nobody EVER will.

Sony ship numbers always have seemed suspisciously high, for PSP and PS2 also. This quarter wasnt too bad on PS3, but still high compared to all recorded sales (which we know with certainty from NPD, Media Create, and Nintendo's Europe sales charts from gfk) and we also know from companies like EA fiscal reports that regions outside the USA and Europe account for very little software sales (for EA they were 5% others, North America 50%, Europe 45%)

lol, there is still about 1.6 million PS3 sitting at retail according to Vgchartz. Sony shipped 6.3 plus the previous stock that was already there. In fact we could be undertracting the PS3 by a good 500k. 

Ah i didn't see the 1.6m thing!

Well we know for a fact VGC has it at 6.6m for the 3 months. Where as Sony has it at 6.3m. So either way it is over-tracked by a 300k, that number can't be changed or spun. Because it would mean 300k consoles that were not even made were sold, they didn't excist!

But yeah if there are 1.6m PS3's on shelves that is quite laughable. That is like almost 33% of what Sony just said they shipped for the quarter!

I am sure the guys will adjust it down soon enough. If not then just makes the site look a bit pointless if your using company results for 2 of the 3's numbers but not the other one. Should all be judged by the same rules in my opinion.

Ship per quater and sold are two different thing. All consoles sold more last quater than they shipped. They usually have left over stock from the previous quater to work with as the DEC quater is biggest of them all. 

Ah i didn't see the 1.6m thing!

Well we know for a fact VGC has it at 6.6m for the 3 months. Where as Sony has it at 6.3m. So either way it is over-tracked by a 300k, that number can't be changed or spun. Because it would mean 300k consoles that were not even made were sold, they didn't excist!

But yeah if there are 1.6m PS3's on shelves that is quite laughable. That is like almost 33% of what Sony just said they shipped for the quarter!

I am sure the guys will adjust it down soon enough. If not then just makes the site look a bit pointless if your using company results for 2 of the 3's numbers but not the other one. Should all be judged by the same rules in my opinion.

Yes i get that. But my point was if your going to have say Microsofts figures based on what Microsoft say in their quarter statements then shouldn't you do the same for the others? Weren't the recent 360 adjustments down to the fact VGC had it a lot higher then what MS said they shipped? If that makes sense.

Yes i get that. But my point was if your going to have say Microsofts figures based on what Microsoft say in their quarter statements then shouldn't you do the same for the others? Weren't the recent 360 adjustments down to the fact VGC had it a lot higher then what MS said they shipped? If that makes sense.