Does anyone know if there is an official announcement with each company saying there levels? You know like Sony says our target for production is 1.2 mil a month or something.

Reason I ask is because people seem to assume that because Sony allocated so many consoles to EU and a rumored 500k to Asia that they will lose the US for DEC. If sony produced even 200-300k per month more than MS the past past 6 months since production was rumored to begin they could have 1 to 1.5 mil more consoles availible for resale WW. My guess would be January production is being allocated for Japan thus why they dont expect supply to flow freely until march or so.

It just makes sense. Sony has known since E3 that their hype was insane and that MS shot themselves in the foot. They would have been stupid not to produce at a high level since then. I think the fact that they are producing in Japan in addition to China lends credibility to the concept. My basic point is this is not a zero sum where Sony and MS have equal stocks to distribute WW. I think it is possible that the PS4 has a 30% or so advantage in availible stock based on the fact that Sony's logistical planner cant be that stupid to not have seen the demand 6 months ago.

Don't know about Microsoft, but Sony is doing 1.25 million a month.

If it is really 1.25 mil they could have 6 mil PS4s produced through the end of November. Mean the ones produced towards the end of the month have a shot at making it to retail before cmas.

Man I sure Sony would hate to exceed projections.remember the Wii nintendo exceeded projections by several million (live 4 or 5 mil)
In think 08. PS4 will exceed that projections demand is insane, and no way Sony gave us the highest possible projection, likely lowballed it because it is very bad if you dont meet po

I thought I heard somewhere that production didn't start till September 1st though? 

Edit: Scratch that comment, it came from Patcher.

I guess we will find out in Decembers NPD.. if sony is above MS, then I think we can feel confident that they are producing more.

That link doesn't exist, no surprise here.

The 5mio quoted from Sony is likely sell-through. With 3-4 ships still on the oceans somewhere, that goes along with 1mio units per month manufactured which most people agree is a "good" number (for either company). Getting to 1mio per month is a thing that takes time, though. First weeks you have to train the machines and the monkeys so the output typically is only a fraction of your goal. the 1mio mark probably wasn't reached until sometime into October.

No. One company flies in a load instead of shipping it, and the numbers (being small at this time) suddenly look completely different.

I dont think they went into full production until the beginning of september...

The link doesn't exist because I am the link. For real though I'll try to find the source I read it from.

It's a very rounded number though. Just around one million produced in a month in China and a quarter million produced a month in Japan. You shouldn't be doing any calculations with it lol.