Tracking is so good because the numbers get/got adjusted by the quarterly reports. Now that Ms has compltely shut up, we will see numbers drifting away.

Just look at a few NPD threads and you see just how out of target the numbers have gotten.

You're comparing sold through (the 35.9m figure) with shipped (the 40m figure).

Sony's 35.9 Millions Statement was of Consoles sold to costumers, not to Stores, Stores probably was 37-38 Millions Shipped, i don't think that in 3 months they only sold 2 Millions of Consoles, and Xbox One, that was something near 18-19 Millions based on baseless Statements, even so you take the Highest possible sales for Xbox One,and the Lowest possible for Xbox One, the gap is greater than you Think, USA Sales, based on NPD, PS4, have over 2 to 1 Advantage over Xbox One, for January, February, and Probably also in March, so the Worldwide gap is atleast 3 to 1, maybe even more, if you Expect Xbox One, to Sell, Ship, etc, 2 Millions, PS4, must do 3 times this Worldwide, so 6 Millions. if PS4, shipped 2-3 Millions, and sold over 3-3.5 Millions in 3 Months, Xbox One, shipped over 650-1 Million of Units, and sold over 1-1.1 Millions worldwide in the same time.

Those numbers are based in the gap that we know from Official Sources, if want to make a Base in something, need to use the Gap that we know.

oh.... >_<' my bad.

Some people here are very confused. I try to expain:

Sony has SHIPPED 40 million lifetime as for 31 March 2016, which mean they shipped 2.3 million during the first 3 months of 2016.

That's a -4% YOY drop compared to last year 2.4 million. This doesn't mean PS4 in SALES was down YOY, indeed, was up YOY by around +12% in the US, while Japan was up by around 20%.

Though we don't know how are the Europe sales which is the bigger PS4 sales part. Many guys think is a given is up even in Europe, but i honestly not sure about this... if i need to bet, i would say is up even in EU, but those are just speculation.

Anyway, the real reason for this YOY drop in term of shipments is because last quarter the PS4 was very, very overshipped, we talk about a 1.8 million gap between sales and shipments.

About worldwide sales, we still don't know yet.

But you can be sure, when the PS4 will surpass the 40 million unit sold, Sony will annunce it, they did it with 10 million, 20 million, 30 million, as well they will with 40 million.

So, we will have a better idea of how PS4 is doing this year.

We know it's lifetime sales were 35.9 million by end of 2015, so, when PS4 will sell 40 million, this mean PS4 YTD sales will be around 4.1 million for the year.


About VGChartz track... it's off, nothing to say more, PS4 shipments are 40m by end of March, and PS4 sales here are 39.8m by end of the week ending 26 March 2016. 200K gap between sold and shipped? Hard to believe.

It's gonna come close to 60m.

Yeah, but this was only an official Statement from Sony, so Bret has no real reason to update the numbers, right? :)

Precisely!

I don't mind errors, not one bit, these are free numbers and I love that we get to enjoy the figures and the ensuing discussions, but this is way, way outside of acceptable margins, even for us. As I said; the lifetime tracking is good, but 2016's numbers are really out of whack. I'm sure he'll adjust in time, our numbers are really quite good in hindsight and serve as a great tool to analyze and predict trends in the markets.

Yeah it will probably be around 57m shipped by years end.  Crazy. 

If only we could get Microsoft to release statements on Sony's numbers, then they'd get updated w/in a couple days :)