Yes it did, it is posted by VGcharts estimates and you can see the chart here:

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons[]=PS3®[]=Total&start=40146&end=40174 

Here's the new that vgchartz posted with clearly states their estimate is about the same amount as the Sony numbers:

http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=6443 

Vgchartz tracks shipped systems, which is fine because shipped means the manufacturers have sold them to retailers. But yet the MS numbers have not yet been updated. 

 The same argument could be said about the 360 however. Sony releases number of units shipped or sold to retailers regardless of whether this number is close or not the sales to the end consumer. 

Algorith, VGC tracks retail sales.

Sony's shipment numbers and VGC's sales figures just happen to be similar. Don't take as a means to suggest VGC tracks shipments.

Tracking shipments doesn't take a whole website to do that anyway as can be seen by thousands of threads across the Internet tracking quarterly shipment numbers from all 3 console manufacturers.

needed a good laugh before I went to sleep!

No, VGChartz does not track shipped systems. It tracks sold to consumer systems. For the period mentioned, the 2 figures just happened to be very close, which is hardly suprising. The PS3 was widely out of stock, meaning the whole shipment had been sold. Hence, VGChartz sold to consumer and Sony's shipment figures are similar.

 So VGchartz tracked 80,000 units more than Sony shipped for sales to end consumers... Well I suppose it's ok if it is sales to end consumers, then it's simply inaccurate overall by an unknown amount. 

You are referring to VGchartz not correcting it's numbers?  It does, regularly, in contrast to NPD which to my knowledge just builds any corrections into the next dataset rather than correcting the original.

You seem to want Vgchartz to correct it's data based on MS's PR claim of 39 million, despite the fact that Vgchartz hasn't finalised it's data for the end of the year and the impossibility of establishing from MS's data what proportion of those 39 millions systems have actually been sold to consumers. 

In light of the number of times that this site's numbers have been way off, even to the point of exceeding the amount shipped to retailers, I can not agree with this at all.

 This is not true.

Some companies are able to track in real time what is sold to customers via tracking software. Siras is the one that I'm most familiar with. It's what Nintendo uses. This lets them immediately know what product sold at what time from which retailer.

You're mistaking such software with data trackers like NPD, who do have to poll retailers and calculate their figures accordingly. That's not the only way to do it, though.

As to why the companies routinely refer to NPD et. al. in most (not all!) of their press releases, internal tracking data is actually very valuable, and companies are loathe to share it with competitors. After all, the data's valuable enough to be worth paying thousands of dollars a month for. So when speaking with the public, it's usually wisest to stick to the figures that you know your competitors already have access to. But they don't always do that.

Finally, your last point is not completely true either. Companies are more than free to cite to reasonable guesstimates: that is, after all, what any company that cites to NPD is doing. They can not, however, make up numbers out of whole cloth.

You're basing that on the idea that stock was at 0 at the start of the quarter.  You can sell more than you ship in a quarter unless stock is completely dry from the reail channel and distribution channel.

Given that's a rarity for the end of the 2nd quarter, chances are very good that retail/distribution stock was at least 80,000 units or higher.

VGC adjusts its numbers all the time. VGC adjusted up it's 360 numbers for November 2009 soon after the November NPD data came out (which is also an estimate by the way so it isn't 100% accurate either).

VGC LTD estimate of sales to consumers is 2.23 million less than Microsoft's confirmed 39 million 360's sold to consumers + sitting on store shelves around the world. You might have unreasonable expectations of accuracy but for me that is an excellent result. And there is no reason to believe VGC's LTD estimates will be any less accurate in another 4 years.

And which accurate information have you got? You've got 39 million shipped, but you don't have any accurate information on sales to consumers. Give us definitive sales to consumers information and the adjustments will come. Just don't pull 1.4 million out of the air like the OP did and expect ioi to run off and change the numbers.