Severance said:
publisher don't publish them outside of their publishing areas so they sell them to those companies in order to "Release" the games outside of their publishing region. For example Nintendo of America publishes Mario in america only, so these small foreign companies buy a large number of Marios and then ship them to their home country, and make the price much higher to gain profit, this way these sales are going to count as sales for "america" not for that other country, because its not an official shipping. |
So these are not tracked by any sales tracking agencies, you will only see them reflected in shipped numbers, right?