| 007BondAgent said: I don't think nintendo uses shelves numbers, plus there is no need to use shelve numbers when it comes to pokemon. Plus the numbers are far to odd for selve numbers, anyways i hope this get's fixed soon. |
shipped vs sold
No manufactuer/publisher/etc reports real "sold to consumer" numbers. That's the job of VGChartz, Mediacrate, NPD, and so on.
Nintendo's numbers are always "sold to retailers", which is the same thing as shipped. It will and should always be higher than what is report on VGC, within reason.
When it comes to consoles, VGC is as accurate as anything else available.
When it comes to games, VGC may be a bit more off when you're looking at game that are heavily bundled, digitally sold, rare/niche, etc. A game like this its going to be a fair bit closer and probably as accurate as anything else available.
Nintendo as of April SHIPPED 14.7m units. As of today its probably shipped a few hundred thousand more, especially considering B/W2 was coming and is out now. Maybe they've shipped over 15m... maybe. But they certainly haven't SOLD that many. VGC says its sold 14.5m meaning ~500k are on shelves or being shipped worldwide. That is reasonable. Maybe a little high, but nothing to worry anyone into changing anything.
