Apparently 3DS gets it's first million seller!

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LordTheNightKnight said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Shipped? What is this, Sony? Come back when the actual sales are this.

Sold to the retail stores is a sale... sold to consumers are what we're mostly worried about yes, that data will come in due time, now please stop bashing, there really wasn't any need to take a swipe at Sony since that will only cause strife...

It's not bashing, unless you think calling on a company for PR spin is bashing.

I'll give the Sony comment, but it's still not cool to tout shipments as though they were sales. It creates a false sense of demand, and that just makes a bubble. THAT is what I meant by getting back when the sales were actually that high. Then we know demand actually is that high, not just industry interest.

Well, publishers don't care about sold to consumers numbers and they don't even know how much that number is. Most retailers don't report any sales to publishers (they don't report DVD, CD or other sale numbers to publishers either) because they don't have to so publishers can't even in theory know the exact sales. Pretty much all sales reported by publishers are sold-to-retailer.

And, really, publishers get the same money whether game is sold to consumer or not. If publisher sells game to retailer for 10 bucks and it sold to consumer for 100 bucks, publisher still gets only 10 bucks.