You decide ... April Fool?:

PS4 sold over 8 million copies worldwide

Was it the beginning of March just over six million sold PS4 consoles that Sony could announce proudly, have since come another two million do so.

This was confirmed by Sony last night with the first at the end of its fiscal year 2013/14, which ended last Monday. Primary predictions of five million sold PS4 consoles until the present time, but these were exceeded weeks ago.

It is this hype seems more and more players to polarize, now also and perhaps earlier than planned to jump on with the next-gen train. Furthermore everywhere only empty shelves and long waiting lists for preorder. Sony itself expects supply shortages until the summer of this year, promises the same time that you're trying to be The best possible to further adjust the production capacity of high demand. March was Sony particularly successful, not least because a number of new games that are released for PlayStation 4. This month, more PS4 consoles than in all other months were sold before, if you take leaves out the launch month.

The strongest driving force was, according to Sony the sandbox spectacle 'inFAMOUS: Second Son' by Sucker Punch, which has brought within less than two weeks over a million copies to the people. Part of it was along with the official bundle sold, which makes the game in addition to a system-sellers.

More detailed forecasts for the coming months would only announce in the coming weeks, Sony, if you officially presenting the annual financial result.

http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fplayfront.de%2Fps4-weltweit-ueber-8-millionen-mal-verkauft%2F

Too good to be true.

Fake ...

Fake. No way Sony shipped 2m in 1 month. Also, i see no sony confirmation and dont expect it untill next week (if they reached 7m by end of march.)

500 million sales LTD

I'm thinking 'shipped' if it's in any way accurate. I can't see how they've actually 'sold' that many.

A late April Fools?



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This is the original source but seems April Fool because the link didn't exists or it was removed.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/13q4NO_PUBLIC_sony.pdf

This kind of link means shipment... like the previous Q.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/13q3_sony.pdf

That would be absolutely ridiculous if true. At best it could represent what Sony has shipped as of the end of March (their fiscal quarter). In that case it may make sense, assuming they've continued selling about 1 million units per months (it'd be 7 million by the end of March, with 1 million on their way to stores to sell throughout April). But 8 million sold to consumers? Doubtful.

If it were true, it'd mean VGC has been massively, massively undertracking it (moreso than I already think they are).

The inFamous number is somewhat believable.

It's the fact that it's believable if you take it to mean shipped that makes me inclined to believe it isn't an April fools joke, and like you said, the Infamous number is believable too.