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[Michael-5]

Yakuzaice said:

Michael-5 said:

Shipped values are irrelevent, you should know that, whatever isn't sold is shipped back. Also GT4 only sold 10.61 million units, and shipped 10.85 million, so for GT5 to break 10 million sales, it would need to sell about 85% as well to break 10 million. It's stabilizing at 66% or so.

Also, you asked me to name game game which shipped 6.4 million in a month, but sold less then 10 million lifetime. Modern Warfare 2 for PS3. Also note, they both were released in the peak holiday sales period.

Considering VGC often adjusts their numbers based on shipments I'd say they are fairly relevant.  It's not like the weekly numbers should be taken as gospel and never changed.

Also MW2 has a pretty decent chance of breaking 10 million.  Plus GT5 won't have a sequel a year later.  Also for some reason VGC has MW2 360 outselling the PS3 version more than 3:1 in America this year.  Not sure if that is a case of undertracking or overtracking, but it could help make a difference.  Or maybe it is correct, but it seems rather odd.

Yea, but MW2 also sold a lot better after the holiday season, GT5 is selling 50k worldwide, where GT4 sold 90k at the same time. Also in Americas, there are almost 2:1 360's to PS3's, so a high ratio should be expected. In EMEAA PS3 to 360 ratio is almost equal, so numbers could be off there too.

Shipped values are relavents, but the 6.4 million units PD shipped, were shipped at the end of December, and no new large scale shipments have been made 2 months later. It's still 6.4 million on PD. This is why shipped values are bad to go off of, how long until PD ships more units? Do I take 6.4 million units as the number of units being sold as od December 2010, or February 2011, or May 2011? That makes a big difference when looking at how well the game is doing.