Last week, Steve Jobs decided to give Apple a pat on the back, boasting that they have sold 120 million iOS devices. However, after Jobs' makes a claim like "the iPod Touch outsells Nintendo and Sony portable game players combined. It's been amazing", you're going to get plenty of skeptical number crunchers to look into this. Those number crunchers are the market research company Asymco, who have figured out that the iPod Touch accounts for 38 per cent of that 120 million figure.
The figure, although not official was worked out by subtracting various known sales figures, including 59.6 million iPhones and 3.2 million iPads sold by the end of June, and then a further 8 million iPhones and 4 million iPads sold in July and August, which leaves 45.2 million unexplained sales (which can only be the iPod Touch), which account for 37.7 per cent of the 120 million figure Jobs mentioned.
With around 125 million Nintendo DS's and 62 million PSP's as of January, there is no way Jobs' statement could be true. The only circumstance in which it could work is apparently only if Jobs was referring to the last quarter where it is still only a possibility since there is no official sales figure for the iPod Touch.
The possible 45.2 million iPod Touch's that have been sold is nothing to be sniffed at, but it might be pushing it to refer to the device as a portable game player. What do you think of the iPod Touch as a gaming device? Leave your thoughts below.