What about to the PS2?  Does that get lowered for sales back then?  (VGChartz has it over 1M sellthru in 48 weeks, Sony PR pushes it back to 50 weeks.)

More seriously, plus points to PS3 on their sales doing that well in UK.  And I'd take away points from Sony PR, but when you are  that far down in the hole, what does it matter?

Perhaps we need a thread showing how Sony PR made it to 2x more confusion about PS3 sales numbers than they did with PS2 sales numbers in the same amount of time.

I think it's likely Chart Track compiles their charts on a weekly basis or such, so Sony can report they hit 1 million sales somewhere in the middle of the week, while Chart Track waits till the end of their week's coverage to provide full figures for that same week or there is a slight delay between definite figures like NPD often reports their sales data weeks later.

Always listen to MikeB, that's like the best thing you can do!

From Gamasutra:

"Officials from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) have confirmed to Gamasutra that press reports that the PlayStation 3 has now sold over one million units in the UK are accurate.

Apart from confirming that the figure refers to units sold, rather than shipped to retail, the company was reluctant to offer any other details or statements – although a major local press event was mentioned as being scheduled for later in the month.

This means that the PlayStation 3 has reached the one million unit mark a month or more sooner than the PlayStation 2, which took 50 weeks to reach the same figure. This compares to 60 weeks for the Xbox 360 and 38 weeks for the Wii – the latter of which is the current record for the UK.

As of January 1st 2008, Sony’s own figures, which likely refer to shipped rather than sold consoles, put the worldwide total for the console at 10.49 million units. This suggests that the UK market currently accounts for around 10 percent of Sony’s PlayStation 3 business.

Recent hardware estimates revealed by Electronics Arts suggest that 2.8 million PlayStation 3 have been sold in Europe as a whole, with the company expecting the console to sell between 5.0 and 6.0 million units in 2008 – compared to 1.5 to 2.5 million for the Xbox 360."

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17361

Adding more to the debate!

2.8m PS3s in Europe, that seems a little low, maybe that just means in the last quarter?
However, if Sony are saying that it is sold, I doubt that they are going to be lying this time. Maybe it would be best to ask chart track

What can I say: we really love the PlayStation over here. Always have done and probably always will do.

Fact is this sentence implies PS3 hasn't reached 1M yet according to chart-track. There is no info how far off the is PS3 at the moment besides the notion that PS3 will hit 1M faster than PS2 did. PS2 took 50 weeks, so that means PS3 will take 49 weeks or less. However, with PS3 being released on March 23 last year, the end of week 49 for PS3 will be somewhere at the beginning of March. So all we know for sure from this article is that PS3 should pass the 1M mark no later than the beginning of March based on the figures of chart-track. Any other conclusion you make is just your own opinion on the matter and pure speculation.

 No he does not.

 You don't see Famitsu changing their data when Media Create says something different, do you?   These discrepancies happen due to the inherent inaccuracy of sampling.

Look at the data the past few weeks....3k, 3k, 1k, 2k.    Those are the sales difference reported.  How do you get 100k from that? 

They did not state the PS3 hasn't hit 1 million for the UK. The article uses the word "confirmed" which is something else than "denied". Likely they don't have their definate data ready to say: "Yes, today (or yesterday) at 1:35 PM the PS3 hit 1 million sold for the UK". But what Chart Track states is clearly in support of Sony's statement, not against.

You are of course entitled to your opinion.

Every news report on this states SONY REVEALED, or SONY CONFIRMED.

GFK was not mentioned once. They are shipped numbers until otherwise confirmed.