Sony shipped 27 million PS3s (i.e. Sony sold 27 million PS3s to world retailers) through September 2009. I had been expecting them to ship 34 million PS3s through the end of December 2009, en route to their target of 35.7m PS3s shipped through March 2010.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.sohu.com%2F20091204%2Fn268673981.shtml&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

Given that you want ample supply built up ahead of December, rather than during Deptember, I see no reason why Sony couldn't have shipped 33 million PS3s through early December (probably through December 5/6) which Stringer refers to as "Sony sales" in the link above, i.e. what Sony has sold to retailers. Stringer certainly wouldn't quote sell-through figures when giving a wide ranging interview, as the 33m sounds far more impressive than 'about 27 or 28 million'

There are always millions of systems in stock on shelves during the Christmas quarter that have not made it into homes except in cases of extreme shortages/screwups. Odds are Wii shipments (56.2m through September 2009) for instance have already surpasses NES shipments (61.91m lifetime).

Yeah, didn't 360 ship 6 million this quarter last year.

It does seem plausible for retail shipments.

You are absolutly right, the CEO of a compagny like Sony can't lie to the share holders.

And the share holders read the internet in order to get information.

The fact that sony seems to have sold 33 millions of PS3 at the beginning of december is a good new.

The retailers believe in the success of the PS3 and i think that sony could sell more than 13 millions ps3 in 2010.

It's a great victory, just before the release of the blockbusters from sony : FF13 in japan, GoW3 in the Us and GT5 worldwide.

if grosoft wants to exist in 2010, i think like Patcher that's time to another cut for the 360. But the effect of cutting prize will have less effect as the prize reach 100$.

So if true, I wonder how many of those will be nabbed. Will we see sales reach 33 million by the end of this fiscal year?

 If they have then what will happen to those unitS?

Will shipments be like VERY LOW in Q4 (Jan - april)?!

there's no way that if this is true that it is only available on a Chinese source. I don't see why anyone would believe that.