Torillian on 29 July 2008
Well the first issue I see is that the OP is just subtracting sold to consumer numbers from a shipment total. What remains does certainly include the shipment for others, but it also contains the difference between shipped and sold for NA as well as Japan. Seeing as how we don't know exactly how they split the shipments, I don't think you can really use this as definitive evidence of anything.
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