RSSSony Says 687,300 PS3s Sold Meets 1M Goal
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published January 12, 2007, 3:22 PM
In a statement to BetaNews this afternoon, a spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment of America said that NPD Group estimates of 687,300 PlayStation 3 consoles sold in the US - a figure which Sony did not deny - effectively meets the company's most recently stated sales goal of one million units in North America.
"As we announced on January 8, 2007, we met our previously stated goal of 1M units in North America by December 31, 2006," the spokesperson told BetaNews. The spokesperson goes on to point out that NPD Group's numbers fail to take into account units sold in Canada (which Sony estimates at 90,000), units sold in the final week of the year (whose sales figures Sony estimates to be 170,000) [CORRECTION: By "last week," we've now ascertained that Sony meant "the last week of the year 2006," not "this past week"], plus an estimated "units at retail that are in transit or on their way to from the warehouse to the store" (approximately 100,000 units).
Sony's addition, which would encompass the entire continent and include units shipped though not yet sold retail, would place its total at just under 1.05 million units wholesale.
With those adjustments having been made, Sony today popped open the champagne corks and began celebrating. In a statement early this afternoon, Sony CEA President Jack Tretton proclaimed, "If there was ever any doubt about the power of the PlayStation brand in the US, the December NPD data should quickly quell it. Not only did consumers drive records for PLAYSTATION 3, they also validated the excellent value represented by PlayStation 2 and the entertainment versatility of PSP. These sales figures bode very well for the company heading into 2007."
The PlayStation 2 figures to which Tretton refers include NPD's estimate of 1.4 million units sold to consumers last month. For this citation, Sony did not make adjustments or corrections to NPD's estimate.
Sony's statement to BetaNews came in response to our report earlier today, which noted also that Microsoft Xbox 360 sales in the US were estimated at 1.1 million units, for a lifetime figure of 4.5 million units. Microsoft's estimate of 10.4 million units shipped is apparently a worldwide estimate specific to Xbox 360.
when will ps3 com to nigeria?iam willing to buy 2.ps2 was and still is a big hit here,nobody knows about 360 here.
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|who ****ing cares....
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|It's Japanese math; they like to round a lot of things up. Especially the size of their you-know-what. Lol.
Anyway... I'm one of their 1 million as of yesterday. =)
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|This is definitely some fuzzy math... the likes of which I haven't seen since December 13th when I took my Linear Algebra final exam....
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|Does anybody care anymore?
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|Just the gamers...
...and the game developers, and the console makers, and the investors, and...
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|Just the headline makes it sound like Enron math.
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|I love how I still can't find a Wii anywhere.
Yet, Walmart had 4 PS3's when I went there yesterday, Target had 3 of them, Gamestop had 6 that they said they haven't been able to sell in the past 4 days, and Circuit City told me over the phone, "No we don't have any Wii's, but we have plenty PS3's!"
I never saw that one coming.
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|Sony just isn't what it use to be.
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|The PR arrogance of Sony shines no brighter than right here. I'm sure they have some great, hard-working engineers, but the rest of the company really just makes Sony look like the ass-end of a cow.
This reminds me of dot-com era stuff.
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|We start off with VerizonMath. Do we need SonyMath now? 687,300 == 1,000,000 :)
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|I think it's closer to RIAA mat. a couple of years ago, they were crying about lost CD sales, despite record CD sales. In reality what went down was CD shipments. The fact that stores were storing smaller stock piles, despite increased sales, got spun as massive drops in CD sales due to piracy...
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|you do not even want to know about howard stern's math.
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|Howard doesn't do math. He has people paid to do it for him.
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|smartest way to do math i tell you.
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|Last time I checked, the term North America DOES include Canada, so Sony is correct in that the NPD group are missing data that Sony is correctly counting...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America
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|Wikipedia doesn't count as a reliable source... just ask Stephen Colbert about Elephants.
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|Yeah, and so does Mexico. I'd love to see how many PS3's have sold in Mexico.
...3?
Do you really think an additional 312,697 PS3's sold in Canada?
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|Whatever those Sony reps are smoking, I want some of it.
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|"In a statement to BetaNews this afternoon, a spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment of America said that NPD Group estimates of 687,300 PlayStation 3 consoles sold in the US - a figure which Sony did not deny - effectively meets the company's most recently stated sales goal of one million units in North America."
Okay--help me out here, Scott. What am I missing? How is January 1st-6th counting towards their 2006 sales goal? Even with those numbers, how can we trust the "units at retail that are in transit or on their way to from the warehouse to the store" (approximately 100,000 units) information?
Sony seems to be making the most stretched statements they can to support their original goal, but even then they have to "add" the first week of January to meet their goal. Am I understanding this correctly or am I mistaken?
Also, the article title will likely get some criticism, as it "seems" to be mocking sony. The truth is in the article, though--assuming I interpreted it correctly.
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|Thanks for noticing, bourgeoisdude. We double-checked the meaning of "last week" in the figures that Sony gave us, and what we now believe they intended was "the last week of the year 2006," as opposed to "this past week." I've posted a correction above.
-SF3
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|Honest mistake, saying "last week" as opposed to "the last week" can make a huge difference in meaning here. Heh--so this is how many things become misreported in the mainstream media too, I'm guessing :)
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|Sony should become a partnership with Colin Powell and the White House, they'd make up some good bulls***, now wouldn't they?
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|throw in weird al and some of it might even be interesting.
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|687k sales prior to week 52 of 2006
+90k Canadian sales
+170k final week North America sales
=~947k sales in North America (plus 100k in transit)
Altogether, over 1M sold in North America. What's all of this fuzzy math that everyone is talking about? Pretty simple algebra to me.
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|Uh...basic addition. No algebra required.
...unless of course that was meant as a joke, in which case...
Woosh...
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|Uhhhh... You counted 90,000 sales twice.
For all you geography majors: Canada is in North America too.
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|Exactly, Canada is in NA... and the 687.3k sales did not include it. Therefore one must add 90k to 687k to figure out total NA sales. No double counting at all.
Read the first two paragraphs of the article!
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|No joke... you're correct, addition is all that is required - and addition is part of the broader field that is algebra!
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