Sony: We're on track to ship 1 million PS3 units by year end

[Blackraven]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Well acording to their counter the PS3 is selling an average of about 21,000 units daily. If that pace don't change that makes it about 775k units for Xmas and 925k for the end of the year.

Are you referring to the nextgenwars.com statistics?

If so, then I could find this strange.

Right now (as of the time of post), there are around 414k units of PS3 sold (based on what their site) says.

Assuming that we only have around 20 days left before the end of the year, then that would mean that your 21,000 units/day figure would yield only 420,000 units from now until year end. This is also assuming that the 21k (or so) units per day would come from the only places that are selling the PS3 at the present time: United States, Canada, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Assuming that the 21k daily figure doesn't change (or is constant all throughout), then we would only 840k units sold for the PS3 by year end. That's still not enough.

I'm worried about this because such a figure is WAAAY too low. In order to feed terror on the competition, Sony must show its competitors that they are not a force to be underestimated with.

Originally, I expected 2 million for the end of the year. I earlier assumed this figure based on the 1 million per month average. Unfortunatley, this figure may not be reached after all.

Now I start to worry. I am a bit worried because if Sony only makes a million this year (or even worse, less than 1m), will Sony be able to make up for it in the first three months of the year?

I don't even know if the combined force of Europe + other Asia + Australia + New Zealand + South America could make around 2 million or more extra units just for the month of March.

I'm not saying that I'm skeptical but I do feel worried. Remember that Sony's fiscal sales this year (ending March 2007) is a make-or-break period for SCE International. They can't end low, otherwise, it may be too late to recover back on lost sales after the end of fiscal year.

Remember, if Sony can't make 6 million, then 5 million units are enough (for me at least). Anything lower than that (especially 3 million or less) would be dismal.

That's what Sony can't afford to do.