Baki said:
At E3 they said they stopped shipments of 40GB units and only started shipping 80GB recently. So Between end of July to approximately 16th August they didn't ship any units. So from what you're saying is that they managed to sell out the entire inventory and then some.
I mean 14.89M is an absurd number considering they only recently shipped over 14M. I know there is a time disparity but generally for a product like the PS3 sold to consumer numbers generally under track shipped number by at least 1 to 2M. So for VCG numbers to be even plausible, the PS3 should have shipped at least 15.89M which we all know isn't true.
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I am pretty sure shipments do not stop like that.
NPD for America and Famitsu/Media Create prove this themselves.... NPD reported well over 200k PS3s sold for July (the month AFTER the 14.41 million were shipped)
retailers generally won't keep more than 3-5 weeks stock on shelves.... 3-5 weeks of stock for PS3 would be about 150-250k... so you are saying there are litterally no PS3s anywhare in America.
Famitsu and Media Create have been reporting about 10-15k of sales per week since the end of June also... and it in fact went up the last week due to Obon holiday... so there is certainly no shortage there.
There have definately been shipments of PS3s since June, Sony would not have left themselves out to dry until they could ship the new models.
What your thread has brought to my attention however is that PS3 could be overtracked in the Europe area (and probably undertracked in America considering NPDs numbers are usually higher than here) I believe Sony's use of "Europe" might be a slightly smaller area than VGC covers, but even then the Europe numbers for VGC are 5.9 million for the end of June, whereas Sony shipped 5.8 million.
So I think PS3 may be overtracked in Europe by maybe 400-500k.... although it may also be undertracked in America maybe 200k, so that cancels part of it out.
