Sony ships 4 million PS3 units worldwide

SONY (SCE) Chairman Taragi Hisashi last week said in a statement, "PlayStation 3 (PS3) has shipped 4,000,000 units (Worldwide).'' They had reached 2,000,000 units, point in time at the end of last year when production issues where present, now these issues have been taken care of entirely. SCE currently aim toward the PS3 shipment of 6,000,000 units towards the end of March.
The sony stock price presently 6410 Yen (UP by 60 yen).

[BIadestarX]

wow that's a lot of consoles.

[PS3 Owns All]

I'm back from my very, VERY long vacation! Yes now it seems like SONY is meeting the promise. People that doubted SONY saying that they would'nt even get close to shipping 6 million, have now ate their word. Many have expected SONY to have half of what they promised? Now SONY lives up to the promise on shipment numbers. ^_^

[NextGen24Gamer]

http://nexgenwars.com/

Are they shipping too many for consumer demand is the question...You don't want to over saturate the market and give the impression that No one wants it with so many stocked up. You want to give just enough to sell out consistantly and keep people excited about it. Just a thought. But it looks like Sony will hit 6 million shipped when they said they would the last time they announced their potential numbers.

[AuburnTiger]

if you bring up nextgetWars then we should also look at the 360's 10.6 million sold. But how is this possible when MS said they sold 10.4 at the end of '06?? Are you stating that MS has sold only 200,000 360 in the last 2 months...

As a side note, begging for bubbles isn't the most respectable thing, but losing bubbles for speaking your mind is definitely not cool.

[Arkham]

MS shipped ("sold into retail channel") 10M by end of 2006. By now they've probably actually sold-to-consumer 10M.

[FordGTGuy]

but even if they sold every single of those 4 million they are still behind the Wii by almost a million and behind the Xbox 360 by 6-7 million. But its good to see they finally started producing more. God knows they needed it.

[Die_Sloe06]

4 million is alot? Well, I know its easier to make but Nintendo is at somewhere around six so I dont think we should be that gun-ho about the numbers......

[FordGTGuy]

1 million is alot and although this day and age trillion is commonly known a million is still the key number. Your lucky to sell a million copies of a game so selling a million consoles or even making a million consoles is a big deal.

[ApocalypseShadow]

just keep pushing those ideas and meeting those goals.europe release will sell a lot of those systems and things will just keep getting better.roll on with your bad self sony.

[FordGTGuy]

When you comment your apposed to share your opinion not make half of the entire site hate you. You post might have had good intentions but saying something like that could start a 100 post war on this site. No wonder you only have 3 bubbles.

[FeralPhoenix]

I read shadowgamer's post wrong, but I just thought he was just saying "Good Job Sony" -of course he's "Pro Sony" to put it lightly but either way, whats wrong with saying something positive about the company you like?

[original seed]

Casual gamers are NOT ready to spend that much money on Potential

[IPlayGames]

4 mill worldwide thats pretty cool since got "some" games to back it and if that mii rumor is true that would help in selling some consoles.

[bluebrad1974]

Obviously you Sony fanboys don'y remember Sony saying they expected to have sold 3 mil PS3's by the end of 2006.

[techie]

But it's always good to try and overestimate...hell I do that all the time with my work I'm doing...I make crazy targets, and almost never meet them but it gets me going and makes me panic so I can get good results in the end. I say 4million in two countries is pretty impressive for this system.

[Monchichi025]

Not sold. There will be millions of PS3's in storage houses worldwide at that price and no good games.

[techie]

I think what you're trying to say is that uptake will be slow because of the price, and because of there not being that many good games just yet.

[Funky Town_TX]

great job Sony.

[ChefDejon]

people keep reffering to the nexgenwars.com that place sucks dack its been those same numbers since like beginning of january

[Xi]

2 million sold. I wouldn't be happy with those numbers.

[Arkham]

Microsoft shipped 10M 360s by end of 2006 (13 months). Sony's shipped 4M in 4 months.

It's a damn good start.

[lil bush]

now they need to sell them and produce the games that people want to play

[NextGen24Gamer]

Their financial report showed that they sold 10.4 million by the end of the year. Why sony fans keep mixing up the facts.

Let me re state.... MS announced that it shipped its 10 millionth xbox 360 at the end of November 2006....

A month and a half later they announced that they sold 10.4 million units. Next Gen wars is typically off any where from 500k to 1 million units. It guesstimates the sales...its not an exact science but alot closer than The VG charts..