PS3 WILL overtake (if it hasn't already), but they'll all be within a 10m range of each other which is amazing.

The reason for not releasing the console is definitely not the huge demand in the tier 1 countries etiher. 3.9 million shipped and 3 million sell-through definitely shows that it is time to increase to country count.

at the end of the day you are a local mediamarkt guy in Switzerland.
Judging by my own experiences I made with your colleagues, I just have my doubts that you are able to oversee or estimate global shipments and sell through numbers from Microsoft. Sorry.

What is so difficult to understand? Here are all the facts for those who are irritated:

1. MS sold to customers 3mio units.

2. MS manufactured 3.9m units.

3. The transit time for ships China-Europe is around 30 days, for China-NA a little shorter. So there WERE NOT 900'000 XBox Ones on store shelves. Those units were either on ships on sea or in transit storage and in shops. If we assume two ships per week, that is 6-8 ships on sea with "unsold" XBox Ones.

4. Sony sold to customers 4.2mio PS4s.

5. We do NOT know how many ships were on sea with how many PS4s on them.

Now we can make the idiotic assumption that all units were airfreighted in by Dec 31, so shipped=sold=manufactured. This would either mean that:

a) The first 3 weeks of 2014, no PS4s would be in shops since there were no ships on sea

b) Sony continues to airfreight almost all weekly stock - hardly a reasonable assumption.

It seems reasonable that at least 1-2 weekly shipments were on sea transit, or if we go by MS numbers, three weekly shipments. This puts the number of PS4s that Sony will show in its quarterly report between 4.7mio and 5.1mio.

The thing is that there couldn't be huge problems like people claimed if they could ship 3.9m consoles. It's not as if Microsoft had to think "damn, with our huge production issues we can't ship to a few small European countriees where we could sell maybe 150k consoles till end of the year"

...after the 360 had a year head start over the Wii and PS3.  But...you're fighting over 1.5mn unit scraps, for "bragging rights".  Seems legit... :-/

this 3.9 xone are Shipped or Sold?

sold to retailers.

I wasn't aware the change happened earlier.

Actually I'm happy they can apparently run a console business in profit against real competition.

Which means shipped? right?