Sony claimed to their shareholders that the PS3 would increase sales by 13% for the year, which it obviously hasn't been trending towards as of yet this year. I ran some quick numbers to see what it would take to get the PS3 up to that figure and it comes out to ~10.4 million. Averaged out over the ~7 months remaining that equates to ~1.49 million units per month starting from the August 8th sales data. Of course, the holiday season equates for the vast majority of this number. By comparison last year in that time frame the Wii sold ~17.5mil and the 360 sold ~9.1mil. Thoughts?
Here's what I used:
April 5th, 2008 to August 9th, 2008:
11,306,706 - 14,152,958 = 2,846,252
April 4th, 2009 to August 8th, 2009:
21,317,727 - 23,161,776 = 1,844,049
YOY Diff = -1,002,203. Down 35.2%
August 9th, 2008 to March 28, 2009:
14,152,958 - 21,177,791 = 7,024,833
7,024,833 x (35.2% + 13%) = 10,410,802
EDIT: I screwed up the numbers in my head with 13% and 13 million, so it's actually a 23% increase which would raise the total needed to ~11.1mil. There's also a MUCH more in-depth analysis posted on the main page now heh.
Consoles Owned: Atari 2600, NES, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, N64, Gamecube, Wii, XBOX360
