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The Fury on 28 June 2008

Currently the PS2 is just under £95 in the UK for it's base bundle. If they reduce that to £60 or even £70 and advertise it they could sell thousands more. (or like said above $99), surely it's cheap to produce now.



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Tbone on 28 June 2008

Great for ps2.



 

koffieboon on 28 June 2008
BKK2 said:
koffieboon said:
BKK2 said:
koffieboon said:
In the past Sony has reported produced units, so these are not shipped as in sold to retailer numbers.

They stopped reporting production shipments since March 2007. The 127m through 2007 should be retail shipments.

Only if they adjust their old numbers to fit their new way of reporting. As far as I know Sony didn't release LTD shipment numbers in their earnings releases.

 

 

Well, they should have internal figures for retail shipments aswell as production shipments, so I doubt they have to adjust anything. The PS3 figure in the quote is retail shipment through 2007 and he says sold so it really should be retail shipments for PS2 & PSP too.

Reeves said new global hardware sales figures will be revealed in Tokyo next week. He reiterated that by the end of 2007 more than 10.5 million PS3s, 34 million PSPs and 127 million PS2s had been sold around the world.

Tracking back from the 127m figure would put their retail shipments at 115.62m through March 2007 compared to reported production shipments of 117.89 through the same period. There's a margin of error of 500k from the rounded 127m, so it suggests there were 2.27m +/- 500k more PS2s produced than sold to retailers when they stopped reporting production shipments.

 

2,27M seem a bit low for replacements under warranty when you ship over 120M units. Although those warranties might also be send through the retail channel and in those cases they might be included in shipment numbers. Anyway, if the numbers are low on Vgchartz, does anybody have a suggestion in what region it is low?



BKK2 on 28 June 2008
koffieboon said:
BKK2 said:
koffieboon said:
BKK2 said:
koffieboon said:
In the past Sony has reported produced units, so these are not shipped as in sold to retailer numbers.

They stopped reporting production shipments since March 2007. The 127m through 2007 should be retail shipments.

Only if they adjust their old numbers to fit their new way of reporting. As far as I know Sony didn't release LTD shipment numbers in their earnings releases.

 

 

Well, they should have internal figures for retail shipments aswell as production shipments, so I doubt they have to adjust anything. The PS3 figure in the quote is retail shipment through 2007 and he says sold so it really should be retail shipments for PS2 & PSP too.

Reeves said new global hardware sales figures will be revealed in Tokyo next week. He reiterated that by the end of 2007 more than 10.5 million PS3s, 34 million PSPs and 127 million PS2s had been sold around the world.

Tracking back from the 127m figure would put their retail shipments at 115.62m through March 2007 compared to reported production shipments of 117.89 through the same period. There's a margin of error of 500k from the rounded 127m, so it suggests there were 2.27m +/- 500k more PS2s produced than sold to retailers when they stopped reporting production shipments.

 

2,27M seem a bit low for replacements under warranty when you ship over 120M units. Although those warranties might also be send through the retail channel and in those cases they might be included in shipment numbers. Anyway, if the numbers are low on Vgchartz, does anybody have a suggestion in what region it is low?

I see your point, in UK people rarely use manufacturer's 12 month warranties, they just take it back to the shop they bought it from. Maybe it's not the same in other countries though.

If the numbers are off then it would probably be from developing markets which are pretty difficult to track, but I haven't really looked at PS2 numbers here as it's not of much interest to me.