__/ [ 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
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>> 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...
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