Bear these official figures in mind next time you hear Sony bragging about how many million PS3s it has “shipped”:

1. Nintendo DS Lite: 194,526
2. Nintendo Wii: 83,754
3. PlayStation Portable: 35,700
4. PlayStation 2: 20,995
5. PlayStation 3: 19,996
6. Xbox 360: 7,365

WHAT SONY MEANS WHEN IT SAYS “SHIPPED”:

  • Moved from regional storage facility A to regional storage facility B
  • Put on a boat to somewhere else that may want them
  • In a lorry
  • In a pile waiting to be put on a lorry
  • Hidden in the ground
  • Ken Kutaragi explains Sony's shipping strategy

    Joy through numbers.