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Forums - Sales - PS5 Ships 19.3 Million Units as of March 2022, 70.5 Million PlayStation Games Sold

Mandalore76 on 16 May 2022
yo33331 said:
zorg1000 said:

This is really splitting hairs, nobody cares if a consoles lifetime sales are off by 0.08%

let's not touch the sales of every dying console and let's not do adjustments then .. since the accuracy is not so important ..

and because nobody cares, that's why PS4 have been adjusted a few times even this year, xb1 too (there the difference is even smaller than 0.08%) and many other dying consoles in their last years too. In fact why even the site is tracking the last year of vita or 3ds in japan ? since it's almost nothing as numbers.. let's just remove the database for every console year that is below let's say 50k for the year ? why not if nobody cares.

it's splitting your hairs really

Trust me I know.  It took years for this site to adjust PS1 lifetime sales down to 102.5m when it was overtracked by almost 2 million units at 104.25m.  When I mentioned in 2015 that the total was off and should be adjusted, Sony fans came streaming into the thread claiming there was no point in changing the inaccurate total since it didn't really have an effect on the rankings of the platforms global total page.  In 2018, the wrong total was still showing when Sony announced 525 million PlayStation's sold, which really didn't line up with the totals showing for PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP and Vita (VGChartz had the combined total at close to 527m at that point).  It was finally corrected sometime after that. 

But I do agree, there is nothing wrong with being accurate for the sake of being accurate.  Especially on a sales tracking website that other sites use as their source of information. 



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Mandalore76 on 16 May 2022
holzi said:
Mandalore76 said:

What are you on about?  Please feel free to quote me where I said they don't.  We're talking about how VGChartz <---- tracks console sales, in that it leaves a gap to account for consoles not just on shelves but in transit.  The very specific post, that I very specifically quoted, insinuated that this is some sort of new practice that VGChartz is using to make it seem like less PS5's have been sold.  Read an entire quote and comprehend the context next time before you throw on your tin foil hat and join the VGChartz is anti-Sony brigade.

trunkswd 2 days ago
Pionner said:

Looks like vgchartz is undertracking PS5 a lot. 19.3 PS5 sold by March 31st and this site has PS5 only at 19M weeks into April.

Sony said they would ship 2M by March. Yet this site kept insisting on undertacking PS5 well before that.

"Sony's 19.3 million figure is shipped, while we track sold to consumers. It take can several weeks to ship consoles around the world. There is always a gap between shipped versus sold, unless a console is discontinued and there is no stock left on shelves."

Pionner said:

"No offense....but this sounds like a new excuse. I don’t know whether to defend vgchartz always being inaccurate, or people doubting PS5 sales. 

Once again, you cannot use that method with PS5. Whatever Sony ships they sell. There’s no PS5 stock anywhere. It’s been 2 weeks since March 31st where this sites data reports. Even if I believed that assertion, all those “unites in transit” would have been sold already. 

More importantly, when Sony reports shipped, it’s shipped to retailers meaning they already bought them and is in their warehouses. Not that consoles are still in transit. So that fact automatically makes that “unit in transit argument” factually wrong."

Sorry, seems like I replied to the wrong comment. My argument was against the notion that shipped would in any case equal sold to end customers and I think that the evidence that this cannot be true is convincing. So if I understand correctly we are on the same page. Just wanted to provide some facts to end this endless arguing and replied to the wrong people.

Yes, it was the fact that we seemed to be saying the same thing that confused me the most about your post to me.  No worries then.  All good.