| drpunk said: I'm intrigued. Who would sue? |
Investors generally sue when companies mislead them.
Of course he is talking about sold to retail because technically the retailers are Sony/Nintendo/MS's customers. The sell through to the consumer influences how many units they can sell to the retailers. As Bitmap Frogs has suggested, the retailers may have overestimated demand for the title. If that is the case, you will see it discounted quickly. My unofficial survey of retailers has this game currently selling at full price. That being said, it is unlikely that there would be 75% of the copies sold to retailer still being held by the retailers. If it really was that big of a disappointment, I think retailers would have begun discounting the title, similar to what happen to Haze within the first couple of weeks.
It's a slippery slope when you start to question VGC's numbers for some titles and not all titles. It is very likely that they make mistakes or have some holes in their current coverage, but there is no better data on weekly sales to customers anywhere else on the Internet.
Thanks for the input, Jeff.
