It's not sold to customers, it's shipped. That's what everyone uses.

Uh I think Nintendo means sold here

Yeah and sold for publishers means shipped.

if your right it means we dont have digital sales cuz they cant be shipped! Over 4 million confirmed yessssss! Pokemon XY doing so well, i got wrried there 

I don't know what the argument is about. The data outlined by Iwata is clearly sold to consumers - not shipped to retailers.

Furthermore, shipments in Japan alone have been 2.5 million according to the data outlined by Famitsu (sold 2.1 million in 2 days - 84% sell through rate)

Only 1.5 million shipments for both the Americas and Europe? Funny.

When a publisher announces that a game sold X copies, X means shipped + digital. Are you new here or something?

i was joking that time anyway 4million is huge! 2nd highest pokemon opening ever!

2nd highest behind B&W?

The irony right? BW had the highest opening but with 15mil sales its the bottom of the main 5 games!!!

I hate seeing VGChartz being so off in the numbers.  They were over 25% off if not further as far as the sales go.

It really makes them lose their credibility, many sites quoted VGCHARTZ numbers when announced.

http://mii-gamer.com/2013/10/15/pokemon-xy-breaks-3ds-records-sells-5-5-million-day-one/

http://www.nizulo.com/2013/10/pokemon-x-y-sells-5-5-million-copies-24-hours/

Zelda informer also had it on their facebook page and an article on their site, but it's been removed already.

Makes me sad :(.