Majority of the profit? Did they suddenly storm back towards the end there? Because last I recall, the PS3's losses still outweighed the total profit of the first two generations.

Its more that every release there is discrepencies for the numbers. VGC only really can obtain US numbers and most of EU fairly accurately. Theres alot of numbers they dont know.

I thought it was Sony that was known for using shipped numbers as sold to consumers?

Unfortunately for us, it's going to be hard to compare now that they are combining the PS2/PS3 numbers together. I guess that's due to the poor Vita performance though. In order to try and mask how badly it's doing they've combined it with the PSP numbers to hide it. In order to remain consistent they did the same thing with the PS3/PS2 even though both are selling fairly well.

Where did the site claim its information is right?  Can you please give me a situation where finding information through statistics is factually right?  Outside the official shipment numbers from the companies, everything else is guesswork.  Unless you get perfect numbers or perfect sample sizes, all numbers will be off from NPD to GFK.   Stop being and idiot, it makes you look bad.

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It did!
And you know what it did also?

It created a brand and an online network the gaming world has not seen before. Plus different franchises that still sell millions of copies today (Halo, Fable, Forza). The Xbox helped MS to get their foot in the door.

Sony spent 6-7 billion and hurt their brand. That is the real achievement here. Sony spent this money to play catch up to the investments MS made with the original Xbox (building PSN up to match XBL quality). I hope you see it now.

Sold = shipped for every game company... at least until they show some tracking services (like Nintendo did for US, Europe and Japan).

I'm being an idiot?  I pointed out something that was honest and you're argueing with me why?  I said nothing that was untrue, I simply said VGC over tracked by 3 million and that it loses credibility for it. So before calling me an idiot please tell me what I said that was so wrong? Two things that I absolutely hate about this site is it's credibility and the fact that it's filled with sony fans everywhere.  It's pathetic there is people still fighting over 6-7 year old technology.  I do like this site for the forums as I get a lot of information here but it's ridiculous running into biased fans constantly.  As soon as I had seen this was microsoft I knew that the comments would be ridiculous because lets face it, this site is in favor of Sony.  Now you can call me an idiot because everything i said didn't pertain to this article.  Good day to you

Just a quick point.

Nobody in this thread was saying the PS3 did well compared to last gen. They were pointing out that the PS3 taking 2nd place seemed like an impossibility in 2008, and that since, SONY has done a great job of turning things around. A few people intentionally misinterpreted those comments just for an excuse to go on an anti-Sony rant. Anybody who thinks that SONY is in a terrible position now needs to take another look at the VGC home page, as well as SONY's profit margins on the new PS3.

Yes the site is definitely not reliable, but the point that I'm trying to make is that you think the ps3 is overtracked because of this article which clearly uses march ps3 shipments and september 360 shipments, unless there is another reason you believe it is overtracked.  We won't know how close VGC is until all of the companies report their shipments for each quarter and from there it's a guessing game of whether it is under or over tracked.  And sony haven't given its 2013 Q1 shipments yet, so we won't know how close they are until they do so.