First of all what CONTEXT was he speaking in

at the time he was talking about ONLINE....PSN..& its ONLINe strength

then according to IGN he says....LBP demostrates the strength of it with 1.3 Million people playing.

hence he is sayign 1.3 Million people playing online....this figure they can easily get.

yes other news outlets DID report "1.3 Million sold" BUT at the time he was talking about PSN & online strength....so IGN's interpretation makes more sense in the context at the time

You well know vgchatz tracks sold to consumers. So even if he meant sold to consumers it puts vgchartz 500k above Sony's own figures. If he meant shipped it puts vgchartz at well over 500k overtracking.

Also of course it matters how they say it. Like when Sony said 14million PSN users back in november and is was implied that was for PS3 only. However it was later clarified it was for PS3 and PSP. A company always wants to make itself sound as good as possible. It will use the best statistics it can.

Also to people who have claimed it could be outdated numbers. Yes because Sony themselves would struggle to find their own shipped numbers. They will be the most up to date statistics they have. Using figures from weeks ago could only hurt them, people would assume the figures are recent and thus lower than expected.

The only question is if he means 1.3million played online, or 1.3million shipped/sold. One of them means Vgchartz could be pretty accurate. The other means Vgchartz are miles off.

But how would he figure that out?  It's easier to figure out that he was talking about unique PSN IDs playing the game, since when people play with you, they don't log in.  And the 400k would of course be silly because it sold 400k in US alone with Oct/Nov NPD.  

But we are arguing in circles, so let's agree to disagree.  Mmmkay?

 NEVAR! This is the internet! SERIOUS BUSINESS FELLA!

 And what do you mean how would they figure it out? Sony is the games publisher right? Which means they are the ones making the discs. Seems pretty simple to keep track of how many you have made. Fairly common business practice too.

Winner.

I really wish some of you would listen to yourselves.  This thread was about a bet and its turned into a desperate attempt to defend sales of your beloved LBP ... AS IF 1.3 MILLION WERE BAD OR SOMETHING.

Please, folks, just let it go.  You're making things worse.

1.3 million sold in two months worldwide is not bad at all.

The original poster just wanted to revisit the bet he had with someone (forgot whom), has he spoken yet?

And so is XBL Silver which those Silver accounts are counted in MS's total.

something is wrong, i dont play a lot and i have played LBP more than 60 hours, so if 1.3millions play 17000 hours that is less that is 0.013476923076923076923076923076923 hours per gamer or
0.80861538461538461538461538461538 minutes or
48.5 seconds , that means that every owner of LBP has played less than 1 minute in 2 month???????????????????????????????????? o.0

It's not even worth arguing, people will believe whatever they want to believe. Look how many times I've argued that corporate reports are shipped numbers, but every three months it's the same thing, someone want to believe the numbers are sold to consumer.

I assume shipped unless it's explicitly stated otherwise. Since there seems to be no explicit statement otherwise, I assume this number is shipped. I'm not saying I'm always right, but this is my policy when it comes to PR statements. I've seen enough PR to realize that they will push the limits as far as it will go to make their product sound as successful as possible. That's their job.

If you want to believe otherwise, I'm not going to argue with you since it would be like arguing with a brick wall.