Nice, This practically confirms what I wrote a couple of years ago on here to Rangers about sony PR & using quarterly numbers, btw Still no announcement of 10 million xbone's sold,Interesting that after January sales, PS4 has still only sold 18.5 million world wide. Didn't they claim that a month or two ago?Uh huh. Estimates and guesses.
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Although they've absolutely clarified it as sales to consumers now, which some were questioning before.
I don't recall Sony making sales number available at Spring GDC previously - or at least recently. The timing (this GDC Conference is 2-6 March) It's a too close to the end of the quarter on which they report their Q4 and full financial year figures. I don't think we'll get specific PS4 sales figures until mid-April.
It is quite possible, if their figures are good or better than expected - which I think is likely, to skip a shipped number following their Q4/FFY announcement to make the impact at E3 all the more impressive. Assuming demand is sustained.
Sony follow the 'conventional' financial years, which start on 1st April. They just published their Q3 covering October to December and their Q4 is January to March.
They have before via twitter and press events. Why people questioned it is beyond me.
They sold 18.5m to consumers. They announced it around Jan 4th and are repeating it in their NPD PR. They will announce a new number when they have a reason, likely some at some media event.