yes, the most interesting numbers is the numbers of sold to consumers that you put in the main page.

 You are right and you shouldn't bother tracking them...cause whats there to prove?? nothin..nada...just having the numbers to tell that a console sold is what matters....

 You really can't be that much of an idiot, can you?  Nowwhere does sony ever mention sold to CONSUMER.  NEVER!!  Show me where in a sony financial report they ever say that.  They may start saying sold, but they'll never say sold to CONSUMER.  Apparently your reading comprehension is lacking.

 Since many others have pointed this out, I don't expect you to get it now.  So why am I posting this??  I dunno, I guess I'm bored.

 What I find more interesting is the rather low number of product sitting on shelves as per end of June. Taking Sony's 4.3M units sold to distributors and roughly 4M units sold to customers by the distributors gives us a difference of roughly 300'000 units _world wide_ .  At the current sales rate, this is a month's supply only of product! We could postulate that distributors essentially stopped reordering product in the first quarter and restocking might suddenly become a logistical problem in some areas..

The quaterly financial report from Sony also raises some more issues with the PS3 which are too complex to explain here. Reading between the lines, it seems that the games division has to carry the full brunt of the laser diode development costs, the increase of losses in the games division stems from Sony still selling boxes with expensive diodes. And this will likely continue till these boxes are all sold, so the losses will actually increase in the next report due to the PS3 price cut. Also there are indications that Sony has started ordering or even producing and fully stockpiling cheaper boxes (there is a reason why inventory has significantly increased and suddenly "shipped units" was replaced by "sold to distributors" in the report).

 Wouldn't be so foolish if they were talking about anyone but Sony though, right?

You think that's bad, at a Sony Australia presentation today they claimed to have a 6 million "install base" worldwide for the PS3, with a double asterisk and fine print below that said something along the lines of "figure is actually shipped from factories"

^Thats funny. Anyway

Sony is a genius. No one was believing their shipped figures, so they make it a point to say they are reporting sold rather than shipped. Anyone who is misinformed about how financial reports works would understand that there are 4.48M PS3's in homes around the world. However, a chunk of those are on retailer shelfs. Why? Because those are the units that are sold to retailers. Oh well.

Sony just screwed VGChartz. Too bad, because we were really getting a lot of recognition recently.

Since it is not present in this thread, Sqrl brought up a good point. Perhaps this shuold be added to the methodology page, or something.

I dont think this is the biggest problem facing vgchartz..