Well, not to be a grammar nazi here but if the article stated 10 million produced by the end of december that would align with 10 million shipped by march. a unit fresh off the conveyor belt in china won't count as part of the quarter's shipment. i may be off but I don't think sony can take credit for shipped until the customer receives their product. ...as in it's still not technically shipped during the 4 weeks its on a boat in the middle of the pacific en route to america or whatever its going. but it is "shipped" while the unit is in transit from walmart's central distribution centers to individual walmarts for resale.Who said shipped? I said Sony was making 10 million consoles this year. We don't know how many they plan to ship by the end of March, that wasn't what any leak/ info has said.
i am fully in agreement with you here. those declaring $600 clearly don't grasp the every playstation and xbox product to-date has sold at a loss at launch. some bigger than others obviously but a $50 loss is nothing in this business,.. i believe ps3 was a $300 loss. a BoM of $450 does not translate to an expected MSRP of $600. that's just silly given generations of evidence to the contrary. it's part of why i vastly prefer consoles to pc. ease of use,.. of course. but a gaming pc is stupidly expensive compared to consoles even if you add in 7 years of ps+. i mean for ducks sake, that RTX 3080 everyone is gushing about being a console killer is $700...
Also yeah, each individual part in a PC is sold at a profit while a console is sold at a loss in total, so its way, way more value.