"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> __/ [ Quantum Leaper ] on Monday 08 January 2007 20:49 \__
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>> "Larry Qualig" <lqualig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1168271662.025961.88120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Sony ships 1 million PS3s in N. America
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | In an important early look at the pivotal holiday sales season, Sony
>>>> | Corp. said it met its goal of shipping 1 million PlayStation 3
>>>> | consoles to North America in 2006 despite ongoing production
>>>> | problems with the still hard-to-find video game system.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_hi_te/sony_ps3_sales
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>>>
>>> You seem to have missed this very next sentence in your quote:
>>>
>>> - "The figure is about half of Sony's stated goal of 2 million PS3s
>>> globally by the end of 2006."
>>>
>>>
>>> So they shiped "about half" of their goal of 2-million. But I guess
>>> that's "close enough" and they really did make their goal?
>>>
>> Sony was going to release the PS3 back in March 2006 in Japan, looks
>> like
>> they missed that goal, though they did make the Novermber 2006 goal of
>> shipping to North America.
>> I guess if you keep moving the goal posts it gets easier after a while.
>>
>>
> Microsoft moves it goalposts as well (XBox 360). Several times, as a
> matter
> of fact...
Where did I say anything about Microsoft? The only one to make the goals
is Nintendo, at least they came the closest.
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