Wrong. The 6 million figure was for the previous fiscal year. That covers the timeframe April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007. And that wasn't even retailer sales. That was measuring leaving the factory sales. And they fell short of their goal of leaving the factory numbers by about .5 million.

The current year Sony's estimate is 11 million for the fical year, which means April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008. They changed the method of accounting so now the 11 million is estimated for sold to retail. 

As always, so much hate for Sony.

dont worry we nintendo fanboys will never forget the n64-GC days.. those were horrible days :P

i remember every one posting "ill enjoy the next ssb on the ps3 !" or " sony will make a better mario then nintendo" . Ive seen the doom of nintendo and i thought the NGC would be my last console the Wii is salvation ! ALL HAIL TO WII !

There is no need for this type of trolling. 3 days suspension. FishyJoe

Sad but true. Things can change so easily in the console industry that sometimes the clear winner isn't always... either.

Still, making fun of the PS3 is the "in thing" to be doing right now, just as making fun of the Wii was the "in thing" to be doing from the moment its name changed from Revolution to the moment it began selling like wildfire.

Hopefully this phase will pass. Microsoft is feeling left out.

This thread gave me anal leakage.

Don Wii, do you have a link to Croal saying that?

Time to salvage this thread from revisionist history. The six million figure is the projected units shipped by Sony to retailers by April. Sony fell short of that goal by half a million units. They believed their problem would be supply constraint, and thats why it was a big issue to Sony. However their real problem ended up being lethargic demand. Yes the PS3 was intended to sell very well this year.

The system has yet to sell through the initial five and a half million units Sony shipped up through the end of April. So conceivably Sony has produced and or shipped ten million units probably more. In plain terms Sony is still eating the initial loss, and expanding that loss. Which couldn't possibly have been their intention.

The reality is that Sony probably expected to sell around ten million units of the console by this point in time. Given their own comments, and their excessive focus on production. Even comments in the magazine EGM earlier this year showed that Sony had the mindset that the console would be a run away smash, and it would be supply constrained throughout the year.

The following article was posted at the end of April, and its very illuminating. Further more I think that many here will find the sales figures for that week illuminating. Be prepared for a shock the Xbox 360 has actually made a lot of ground in Europe over the last six months.

http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=8631

With profits at Nintendo seemingly soaring, both Microsoft and now Sony have revealed disappointing results for their next-gen systems this week.

While the Xbox 360 is still comfortably ahead of the PlayStation 3, Microsoft yesterday stated that shipments have slowed down considerably for reasons unknown. Meanwhile, Sony has slipped out the news that it has missed its own shipment target of 6 million units by April by 500,000.

What's even more worrying for the previous market leader is that of that 5.5 million, only 3-3.5 million have reportedly been sold.

At the same time as the PS3 was getting off to a flyer in Europe, sales in Japan have been slowing down week-upon-week - right up to the present day, where PS3 sales are currently at a record low of 11,000 in the last seven days.

Sony still hasn't sold out of its January shipment of 1 million units in Japan as we head into May, while the Wii is going from strength to strength. Sales this week have risen to more than 77,000.

The full sales figures for the past week are as follows: -

Nintendo DS/Lite - 172,440
Wii - 77,913
PSP - 29,459
PlayStation 2 - 11,398
PlayStation 3 - 11,000
Xbox 360 - 2,307
Game Boy Advance/SP/Micro - 1,364
GameCube - 266

just wait with 08 around teh corner we will roll the wii......man that is hard to say witha straight face

wait to final fantasy 13
just wait.