Estimated 2 million PS3's by New Years, say random analysts

by Nick Doerr { Oct 7th 2006 at 11:00PM }

This time, we're hearing from analyst P.J. McNealy who claims the PS3 is in the final stages of production and will be able to ship 2 million units by the end of the year. Chew on this hefty quote McNealy uses to back his thoughts: "It is our opinion that given the 13 weeks or so of production time, SNE can still come close to its forecast of 2MM units worldwide by the end of December. We believe this likely means a split of 60/40 (1.2MM/800k) for North America/Japan for shipments, which are counted when invoiced off the SNE factory floor. Our research indicates that typically 10-20% of the unit shipment forecast will likely still be in the channel (en route) at the end of December and not installed in homes yet. The low end of that range is more likely simply because SNE will likely still be air-freighting and not tanker-shipping PS3s at that point." Is it safe to say the 10-20% spread en route will be more focused on North America? Even if Japan has production in other Asian countries, Japan is still closer. Whatever. Math.

The article at GameDaily also mentions the (rolling eyes whilst typing) overheating PS3 units, but we all know that's a bunch of biased media crap. Go ahead -- turn off your air conditioning and put your 360, GameCube, or PS2 into an unventilated plastic box and let it run a game for two days. If nothing happens, congratulations. Your system has no soul... and neither do you, for doing such a thing to it. Does it follow then, that Sony has no soul? Sure, because Sony is a legal entity, but not an actual one. It doesn't need to have a soul.

Tags: Playstation 3, Playstation3, PS3, Sony

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

George @ Oct 7th 2006 11:28PM

ps3m (the first to own a ps3) have conducted a test and the test proves that ps3s dont overheat. so take that 360 fanboys. http://www.psm3mag.com/page/psm3?entry=ps3_does_it_get_hot here is the link to the site

Carnie @ Oct 8th 2006 2:57AM

Hell ya George, that is what i'm talking about.....

(360 fanboy) THE UH UMM PS3 CAN'T COMPARE TO THE UH LIQUIFACTION OF THE HERBIFIED PROCESSOR AND IF YOU PUT IT IN THE OVEN IT OVER HEATS *SNORT SNORT*

It looks like the 360 fanboys are gonna have to get out that fecal, rust, drity coverd shovel and eat their words...so guess what 360 fb's....*grabs genatials and pelvic thrust* EAT A FLYING DICK!!!!!

Now only if the rest of this bad BootSiy press will rollover and die before we have to publicly chastize their words....