Sony: Gran Turismo 5 Has Sold 5.5 Million Worldwide

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CGI-Quality said:

kowenicki said:

CGI-Quality said:

I can see an adjustment, yes, even if I'm overestimating how much it could be. But that's not irrational given a game of that caliber, releasing in such a busy part of the year. I wouldn't be surprised if several other titles receive adjsutments as well.

This isn't the same as someone who runs around screaming "undertracked" at every turn, which is the impression he's giving off.

How am I giving that impression, I was calmly and politely saying I think you are trying to put your own interpretation on something which seems pretty clear to me.

If this is sold then that means that there has been a further shipment... now, we all know how this works... if they had shipped say another 1.5m or so they would be saying "hey we shipped 7m GT5"

You said I'm looking for something that isn't there (which can only be taken in a negative way since no matter how calm you, admittedly, were, it came off like a vague accusation of an uncertain assumption).

My point is pretty simple, an adjustment doesn't seem too irrational. These things happen every year, regarding holidays, with all big titles. Sony's claims of 5.5mill sold is where my confusion lies, because it comes off as "old news" when this same thing was said two weeks after GT5's launch. It seems a little redundant to repeat that number without any real significance.

They repeat numbers all the time...?  I don't get why you find it odd now.  They repeat numbers so they make sure people hear them, and when people expect to hear about the product and have no new numbers.

I mean, you don't think it'd be even stranger that they've sold exactly how much they previously shipped?

What are the actual odds of that?  It would mean they sold through their shipments, and shipped more (or haven't shipped more, making shipped still accurate.) yet none of that new shipment has sold.

That's... extremely unlikely.