It's not a like for like comparison as these are shipped, as in sold to retailers, whereas VGC is sold, as in sold to consumers. So VGC will cover sales from PS3s shipped before those 5 weeks, but miss sales from those shipped at the end of the 5 weeks.

Still;

VGC "Others" Weeks ending Dec 2 - Dec 30:

Which equals:

1,167,818 

If you round up that's pretty much dead on. If you consider some may have been absorbed into retail, then VGC may have even over tracked.

Here PS3 sales the last 5 weeks according to VGC......

Dec. 02
176,465 2,544,495
Dec. 09
227,402 2,771,897
Dec. 16
276,288 3,048,185
Dec. 23
340,306 3,388,491
Dec. 30
238,490 3,626,981

Total: 1,258,951 sold
Shipped: 1,200,000

Not bad. Sony shipped 1:1 with what they sold.

@FishyJoe, so you saying, that till Dec 2 there were 0 PS3 consoles at retailers? =))

SOny shipped 1.2 mln. BUT retailers already had some of PS3 available. Like 300k, or 500k. or even more. =)
PS3 is definetely undertracked(like in France 544k instead of 568k by the end of year), BUT not overtracked.

Btw, some people on this forum were saying that in their countries(in Europe) PS3 was SOLD OUT. =]

I've just watched the actual interview on Bloomberg (Asia - don't know if it's the same worldwide), and it may actually be sold to consumers.

He mentions the 1.2M NA sales for the 5 weeks at the end of 2007, and says Europe was about the same. Those 1.2M NA sales were supposed to be sold to consumers, so he should really be comparing like to like. Of course just because he should be comparing like to like doesn't mean he is, but it's quite possible.

If it comes on again I'll record it and transcribe it here.

 The PS3 probably is sold out in certain areas but there is no indication of widespread shortages.  If you have info to show otherwise please post it~

Fishyjoe is not saying they had 0 on Dec 2..what he is saying is that they don't have 0 right now.  Unless there are widespread shortages in EU/Others then FishyJoe is correct.

Am I the only one who sees this?

``It's an industry consensus that PS3 sales will fall short of the target,'' said Mitsuhiro Osawa, a Tokyo-based analyst at Mizuho Investors Securities Co., who rates Sony shares ``outperform.'' ``Sony must think it's okay as long as the game business doesn't drag much on its overall earnings.''

Sony is expected to sell 8 million PlayStation 3s in the year ending March 31, missing its annual target by 27 percent, Daiwa said in a Jan. 18 report. Nintendo will probably sell 19 million Wii machines and Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will ship 9.1 million Xbox 360 consoles, according to Daiwa.

So which record did they break? Biggest blu ray player holiday sales?

"Am I the only one who sees this?"

No, but seeing as these Daiwa predictions were made without Q4 shipping figures they'll be out of date next week (this week for 360 and Wii).

so vgc overtracked?
by maybe 300-500k?
(I doupt the PS3 is sold out in UK and France and Germany, the three biggest markets... maybe in Spain, Greece, and Italy)