Well I was subtracting hypothetical PS3 sales from that number, because 70 million number is from November, and 6.8 million number includes October.
But the 70 million number was vaguely reported, and not entirely accurate.
So I went back to basing everything on the March 31st LTD vs. the known combined sales since.
Which if they are at least 8% for PS2, puts Sony under 76 million LTD.
In looking back at PS2 sales.. they definitely saw a pretty dramatic drop.. in particular holiday 2011 was a big drop for them, that bucks the nomal console trend of having better holiday sales than pre-holiday sales.
Was an over 50% drop YOY from 2010. And then their next quarter saw a 50% drop YoY.. Before that the drops were only 20% or so.. fairly dramatic.
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FY 2010/11 1.6 1.5 2.1 1.2 6.4 50.1
FY 2011/12 1.4 1.2 0.9 0.6 5.1 54.2
Small drop, small drop, huge drop, not quite as huge drop.
That combined with Sonys rather vague reporting makes it really hard to predict PS2 sales for Q1, Q2, and Q3.
It's entirely possible they were less than 1 million.. but it would require a drop from 3.5 million during the same quarters the previous year.
I personally think that's doubtful. But it just depends on how much the bottom really fell out for PS2 sales.
But right off the bat it's doubtful considering Sony didn't announce an LTD number for PS3. I really think it's a stretch to think that Sony wouldn't have announced during their financial call that PS3 had surpassed 360 LTD.
In the end.. it's only a number that's interesting out of curiosity.. it's rather arbitrary so long into a generation to barely be ahead, or barely pass a competitor. So it's not some big win for MS to be slightly ahead if they are, or a big win if they aren't.
Which is why I got annoyed that Shayan was condescending and then accusing me of being emotionally attached.. obnoxious to say the least considering the post he quoted was one where I'd proven someone (you) were posting something factually incorrect.
None of this matters much, but I'm curious enough about it to want to be accurate as possible.