mrstickball on 17 August 2007
Sony said they shipped 500,000 copies of Motorstorm 1 month ago in the US and Japan. Actual sellthrough? About 150,000 less.
It's highly doubtful that VGC is off. First shipments can always underpreform. Tecmo actually said they shipped 450,000 units, not 500k.
So VGC has around 190k for Japan and the US. In Europe, I would estimate sellthrough at 75k in Europe (give or take). That'd give us 265k w/w sales - more than half the initial shipment. Which isn't too bad.
Stop trying to contradict VGC numbers based on assumptions that since Tecmo sent 450-500k that it *must* mean that sellthrough has been higher - after all, no company has ever overshipped a game, right?
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
