VG247

Sony announced at GDC 2012 that its motion control peripheral has past a significant milestone. As reported by GameInformer, Sony’s Gabe Ahn didn’t give any sales figures, but revealed the company has shipped 10.6 million Move units to retailers. Ahn said Sony considers the accessory “successful” and still has major plans for it; the companyannounced yesterday that the long-awaited Move showcase Sorcery will finally release in May.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/08/10-million-playstation-move-units-shipped-worldwide/

What should we divide that number by. I mean we can't assume everyone bought only 1 Move controller per PS3 so we could divide 10.6 by 4 if we assume everyone buying Move is planing on having three friends over. But these numbers are counting the Nav controller combined when they are useless without the Move controller. It seems likely that most people buying Move would want a Nav too, which further reduces the end user total. And on top of that these aren't sold through numbers so who knows what any of this means. 10.6 shipped could mean as little as 3 million actual Move user base to sell games to.

Considering some move games are over 3 million in sales that seems unlikely

I did say "could mean as little as 3 million". Even if there are as much as 5 million actual Move enabled PS3s out there, that's half of what Sony is trying to allude to. Sony saying it shipped 10.6 is at the very least not the whole story and at the worst disingenuous.

8 million too late.

Given the sales numbers of certain games, I'd say its at least 7 million users. And the nav wouldn't be included in the totals. 

7 million seemd very high, I'd be surprised if it's broken 5 million individual Move enabled PS3s.

As for the Nav controller, read this:

IGN:

"Sony's Gabe Ahn revealed new PlayStation Move sales data. 10.5 million units have been shipped to retailers so far. With Sony's insistence on using shipped numbers in lieu of sold-to-consumer numbers, we did verify with Mr. Ahn after the panel to verify that his numbers were shipped and not sold. We also verified that the numbers include both PlayStation Move controllers and Navigation Controllers combined."

source: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1220282p1.html

I'm sticking with 7 million, I doubt sports champions has a 65+ percent attach rate

Isn't the move meant to be a complete failure....?

Fairly disappointing sales - nearly 2M in half a year is pretty average. Hopefully Sorcery helps sales.