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Forums - Sales Discussion - Official Big 3 Quarterly/Annual Results for shipments to date & projections

super_etecoon on 22 July 2008
super_etecoon said:
Can we get an update to this page?

http://vgchartz.com/worldcons.php

I guess not.

 



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TheSource on 29 July 2008

Here are LTD Shipments, in millions, since the Wii launch

 

Since Wii launch
Console Dec 06' Mar 07' Jun 07' Sep 07' Dec 07' Mar 08' Jun 08'
Nintendo Wii 3.19 5.84 9.27 13.17 20.13 24.45       TBA
Xbox 360 10.4 10.9 11.6 13.4 17.7 19 20.3
Playstation 3 1.66 3.61 4.32 5.63 10.53 12.85 14.41
DS 35.61 40.28 47.28 53.65 64.79 70.6
       TBA
PSP 37.84 41.56

Nintendo's results will be in by this time tommorow... 



People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

When there are more laws, there are more criminals.

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TheSource on 29 July 2008

Nintendo's shipment results should be in within four-six hours.



People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

When there are more laws, there are more criminals.

- Lao Tzu

TheSource on 30 July 2008

 

Console Dec 06' Mar 07' Jun 07' Sep 07' Dec 07' Mar 08' Jun 08'
Nintendo Wii 3.19 5.84 9.27 13.17 20.13 24.45 29.62
Xbox 360 10.4 10.9 11.6 13.4 17.7 19 20.3
Playstation 3 1.66 3.57 4.28 5.59 10.49 12.81 14.41
DS 35.61 40.28 47.28 53.65 64.79 70.6 77.54
PSP 37.84 41.56


People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

When there are more laws, there are more criminals.

- Lao Tzu

FishyJoe on 30 July 2008

So all those people who whined about VGC overtracking the Wii/360 and undertracking the PS3 have just been bitchslapped with the release of official numbers.



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Viper1 on 30 July 2008

Um, yeah....pretty much.

And yet, sadly, their whining shall continue.



The rEVOLution is not being televised

BKK2 on 30 July 2008

Not really any whining posts in this thread though.

Anyway, Tretton's "4 million behind 360" comment was very misleading. The only way I can see he worked that out was by comparing unannounced PS3 shipments through this quarter to announced 360 shipments through the previous quarter and rounding down a number that should have been rounded up.



YoppaDo on 30 July 2008

I never expected those PSP numbers, PS3 is dissapointing to be honest.

So does that make 5 million at stores for PSP? Seems a lot. Unless Sony are stuffing the channels.



TWRoO on 30 July 2008
BKK2 said:

Not really any whining posts in this thread though.

Anyway, Tretton's "4 million behind 360" comment was very misleading. The only way I can see he worked that out was by comparing unannounced PS3 shipments through this quarter to announced 360 shipments through the previous quarter and rounding down a number that should have been rounded up.

I think someone else speculated he was using Sony's old "produced consoles" figures... I haven't read it myself but there was something about how much the inventory (PS3s Sony has produced but not shipped) has decreased from last year, adn as we know both figures last year (5.5 million produced and 3.69? were shipped).

So Tretton was adding PS3 inventory onto the 14.41, which comes out just under 4.5 million behind 360s 20.3mil.



BKK2 on 30 July 2008

^ Quite possible.

They said inventory value was down 29.7% due to decreased PS3 hardware inventory, but the last production shipment they gave was through March 07, so we don't have the difference between production shipments and retail shipments for the Apr-Jun quarter last year.

PS3 hardware has had a 33% reduction in value since then, so a 29.7% is inline with decreased value of the PS3 inventory, but not decreased units. This makes sense as they should have been stockpiling 80Gb in the last quarter. David Reeves said a couple of weeks ago that they are already on their way to Europe.

Jul 19, 2008

GameSpot UK: Why have you decided to move up to the 80GB PlayStation 3 model?

David Reeves: Hard drives worldwide are a commodity just like memory sticks. I used to pay a fortune for memory sticks, even for a 64MB. Now I pay the same for a 2GB. Our strategy was very much based on the fact that we knew that the cost of a hard drive would come down. 80GB is probably cheaper now to buy than a 40GB.

Secondly, we know that people want more storage--that's a fact. Thirdly, we know that having higher capacity helps. If the Japanese say to us, "We'll give you the 80GB model at the same price as the 40GB model," are you going to say no? No, you're not, and we said "OK," and that's what we're going to do. They're already produced and they're on the boat to Australia, Europe, and to the UK. It was a no-brainer, and we thought that doubling the capacity with the same specs and the same price was probably a good way to go.


Link

Through March 31 2007 there was a 1.89m difference between produced and shipped. It was probably a similar ammount the following quarter, and this quarter seems to be inline with that quarter. 14.41m + 1.89m = 16.3m, coincidentally exactly 4m behind 360.

So, this does seem most likely the way he calculated it, but it's a pretty dubious method.