Jay520 on 12 December 2012
| sales2099 said: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/04/resident-evil-6-ships-over-4-5-million-copies-worldwide/ Dated October 4, 2012. Resident Evil 6 PS3 - 2,141,774 Resident Evil 6 360 - 1,365,775 Total (as of Dec 1) - 3 507 549 Difference of 992 451. And this is sales of December vs shipped in October. Check and mate Ethomaz and Jay520. Big name flagship games are the exception to the rule. GT5 numbers are mostly spot on. 2,141,774 |
As I said earlier. Publishers usually ship a LOT of games at release.
Remember when Uncharted 3 shipped 3.8 million units day 1. Does that mean Uncharted 3 got close to 3.8 million units its first day, or week? Hell no. Uncharted 3 didn't sell 3.8 million until March of this year, four months after release.
The earlier the release, the bigger the discrepancy. After a few months after release, shipped numbers are much more close to sales. And after two years, the discrepancy should be incredibily tiny. See Halo sales-shipped numbers before Halo 4.
