http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090108/tc_pcworld/sonytoutsplaystation3successeslittlebigplanetsales

Ok so it is at 1.8 million here on VGC, but it seems the prez of Sony was bragging that the game had sold 1.3 million since launch in Oct.

So what does he mean, it could be these are how many non bundled sales there are, or maybe it is over tracked... But if it it is over tracked, that means it must be doing really bad in NA, because I thought I saw it sold like 200k in the UK alone so far.

Well, I am not sure what to think, I guess for now I will take a wait and sec approach.

I could only think they didn't include bundles, minus a week or two of sales and of course some % of error in VGC estimation. Don't forget, VGC can't ever be 100%.

IGN says Kaz said "1.3 million played/playing LBP"

so it must mean ONLY users who are online

other sites say he said "sold"
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SSJ12....the moderator phoned SONY PR & just confirmed that they mean "people playing online & not sold"

but apparently he is unreliable at times
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also LBP sold 305K in UK alone....320K in NA (Nov + Oct).....& 80K in Japan (by begining of dec) -- these numbers are from GFK, NPD & famitsu respectively

so acc. to those numbers LBP sales = 700k +

WITHOUt including....Mainland EU sales, WITHOUT including NA December sales & without including Japan December sales

Do the math....it seems unlikely LBP is at ONLY 1.3 milllion right now

who cares really, point is LBP is not a flop.

never said it was, I was just trying to get an idea why he is saying 1.3 million where it is seemingly past that.

probly didn't track bundles.

Like I said in the other thread.

They also said PS3+PSP has a "userbase" of 61.3M.

VGChartz has that userbase at 62.7M at the time of the conference.

So even if it is somehow only 1.3M, then VGChartz is also overtracked on PS3 and PSP by an average of 700k each, also meaning somehow the PS3 and/or PSP is sold out WW. This comes after everyone in the other thread telling me that "userbase" is referring to "Shipped to retail".

I also never had this answered in the other thread.

When people say "Didn't track bundles", do those numbers not show up for the software or does it not show for hardware either?

The way I see it these are either

A. Old numbers.

B. VGChartz overtracked on LBP by 500k and PSP and PS3 by 1.4M minimum.

C. These are not sold numbers for LBP at all and like others said, this is "played" seeing as the entire focus during that point of the conference was PSN.

D. Someone else mentioned that that entire PSN segment dealt with US numbers, I think it was made evident in the HOME figures. Maybe the 1.3M is US shipments?

 lol, maybe nintendo should start say they have a 140 million user base... lol