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Values reflect source rounding and may include signed rounding adjustments as published.", "blank": "Missing/not reported in retrieved primary source; never means zero." } }, "sony": { "dataset": "Sony PlayStation hardware sales/shipments observations", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-17", "csv": "sony_playstation_hardware.csv", "unit": "million hardware units", "time_basis": "Sony FYYYYY labels in this CSV use the year beginning April 1, YYYY and ending March 31, YYYY+1. The annual-report datapoint FY1996 therefore covers 1996-04-01 through 1997-03-31.", "sources": [ { "source_id": "sony_business_data_sales", "publisher": "Sony Interactive Entertainment", "title": "Business Data & Sales", "url": "https://sonyinteractive.com/en/our-company/business-data-sales/", "accessed_on": "2026-10-17", "published_on": null, "measurement": "Sell-in; Sony's page labels both cumulative worldwide hardware unit sales and annual PS4/PS5 unit sales as Sell-in. Annual table unit is millions. 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Sony defines shipments at dispatch from manufacturing bases." }, { "source_id": "sony_ps1_1996_09_05", "publisher": "Sony Computer Entertainment / Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan archive", "title": "PlayStation cumulative production shipment milestone", "url": "https://sonyinteractive.com/uploads/sites/5/2023/02/960905.pdf", "document_date": "1996-09-05", "measurement": "Cumulative worldwide production shipments, not consumer sell-through or sell-in.", "observations_used": "Sony Computer Entertainment Japan press release: global cumulative production shipments reached 7.2 million units as of 1996-09-05." }, { "source_id": "sony_ps1_1996_10_31", "publisher": "Sony Computer Entertainment / Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan archive", "title": "PlayStation cumulative production shipment milestone", "url": "https://sonyinteractive.com/uploads/sites/5/2023/02/961031_1.pdf", "document_date": "1996-10-31", "measurement": "Cumulative worldwide production shipments, not consumer sell-through or sell-in.", "observations_used": "Sony Computer Entertainment global press release dated 1996-10-31: cumulative production shipments reached 9.0 million units (Japan 4.0m, North America 2.8m, Europe 2.2m)." } ], "comparability": [ "Sony FYYYYY labels in this CSV mean the year beginning April 1, YYYY and ending March 31, YYYY+1. Older annual reports often title the reporting year by its March end date; CSV labels and explicit dates use the fiscal-year start convention used in Sony quarterly tables.", "No primary Sony source with a global cumulative PlayStation shipment figure exactly as of March 31, 1996 was found in this pass. The first annual PS1 row is FY1996 (1996-04-01 to 1997-03-31), not a lifetime baseline. Do not sum the available annual rows and call the result lifetime sales.", "Sony primary archive records early PS1 cumulative production-shipment milestones of 7.2m on 1996-09-05 and 9.0m on 1996-10-31. These dated cumulative observations provide historical context but do not fill the March 1996 baseline.", "Older annual report production shipments count dispatch from manufacturing bases; current SIE Business Data & Sales labels hardware figures sell-in and includes returned and refurbished products. These are not consumer sell-through; keep measurement_basis visible.", "Cumulative console snapshots have differing dates and definitions. They are separate snapshot rows, not annual observations, and cannot be differenced safely into annual sales.", "PS1 annual production-shipment observations are available FY1996–FY2004. PS2 annual production-shipment observations are available FY1999–FY2006. PS3 annual history is sparse.", "Values reported as “more than” are lower bounds stored with qualifier=more_than. 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