what he's been doing is using all the threads you've been making lately as an excuse to show ps3 fans claiming the PS3 is going to jump pass the wii. I told him he wasmaking this crap up.

What threads have I made?

If you think the PS3 can potentially pass up the Wii this gen, you have JUMPED THE FUCKING BOAT. Have fun when the sharks of reality come for ya... The PS3 is chasing after 2nd place now... which is possible... Highly unlikely, but possible...

I tried to express that train of thought as well, but was told that I was making stuff up...

Like you said, it's 100% dependent upon how many consoles SCE produced and shipped.

You can't sell a million consoles if you only have 500k on hand. It's the same reason why the more outrageous Wii sales predictions were just that. As in accounting for units sold that weren't even projected to be shipped because they just weren't being produced at a great enough rate.

Best case scenario: initial PS3 production run sells out. Whatever that shipped number is = number of consoles sold. Doesn't get much more simple than that.

On the plus side for SCE, the early fall debut means more time to ramp up production to meet holiday demand, giving a much better indicator of just how much demand there is for a $299 PS3. Barring a complete sell out scenario (which seems unlikely), everyone should be able to reasonbly tell how much of a game changer it was or wasn't.

but no one is claiming that.

Exactly. There's no positive angle to the story for SCE if they still miss their annual projection by a great deal because they weren't even capable of producing the number of consoles they projected they would sell.

Does anyone have any idea how bad that would look?

Your company announces they plan to sell 10 million units by year's end for example, but they only have 5 million available to sell. The investor question at that point becomes "what the hell happened?"

Undershipping inventory to increase an artificial demand would not be a sound strategy unless that undershipped inventory both met their annual projections, outperformed YoY totals and decisively outsold the competition.

Someone feel free to tell me how that's supposed to happen if SCE decides it's "wise" to simply hoard stock in a warehouse for the holidays.

Lol, someone's in the state of denial.

Without knowing any real number, is very hard to be in state of denial.

Haven't you seen the poll on the front page? 870 people on the site (well over 1/3) think it will change that.