is metal gear solid 4 undertracked

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Bodhesatva said:

Actually I think it may be slightly undertracked too (for reasons I'll get into later), but it is essential to realize that the 3 million is a shipped figure, and VGChartz reports sold to consumers figures. Let me say that more simply.

Konami has announced that they have sold 3 million copies of the game to retailers (Amazon, Wal Mart, GAME, etc).
VGChartz has stated that those retailers have sold ~2 million of those copies to customers like you.

That's a lot of stock in the channel, though. Just from a purely shoot-from-the-hip standpoint, having 1 million copies in channel ("in the channel" is a term used to describe a game that retailers have purchased but they haven't sold to consumers yet) is a lot for a game that has thus far sold 2 million copies. It's not impossible, of course, but it's a lot.

We'll see, though

 

tell me then how's having 1M copies sitting on the shelves after 4 full months (clue: Halo 3...jan 8th MS announced 8M copies sold...while we at vg chartz had 7M). If we accepetd it why should we question now?

 

to me the weird thing is JUST 3M copies shipped...i expected at least 1M more.