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CarlMenger said:

 

trestres said:

DavidValbu said:

I don't like TLS numbers. Didn't they sell the first shipment the first day (120k)? Something is wrong here.

Nothing's wrong, the sellout wasn't official. That's what people get for believing a random guy at NeoGaf. I was the frst in the news to comment about it not being official http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/83760/the-last-story-sold-out-first-day-of-release/

Don't believe what random posters in Gaf say please.

 

I'm that random guy! While I agree about not trusting random posters on Gaf, it doesn't help when the editor interperts his own meaning from  the post you write based on 2nd hand trusted info, and then uses other estimate numbers to write his article as fact.

My post was this:

First based on retailer blogs, first shipment of Last story is completely sold out at Nintendo, so no extra last minute orders were able to be done today(2nd shipment is tomorrow though!)

When I saw that vgcharts had used me as a source I added this:

Edit: since ******** seems to want to use me as a source Please note: when Nintendo/ Wholesalers are out of the stock for the first day, assuming the first shipment estimate was actually correct(which we can't be positive about), that just means that Nintendo shipped 120,000 copies out. 120,000 copies are in stores/gamers hands now.

It does not mean that 120,000 copies have been sold through at retail.

I wonderred if that's what it meant about Nintendo being out of stock instead of the stores being out of stock.  That's kind of a weird thing to report about though isn't it?  Usually we just talk about what the shipment was to retailers not if that shipment "sold out" at Nintendo.  I can understand your frustration but in defense of those who took it the wrong way it was strange wording for a shipment number report.

edit: regardless though, thank you for coming down here to set the record straight.