Wii U Surpasses 2 Million Sales

[Viper1]

NintendoPie said:

Viper1 Said:

Because it's not Nintendo or Sony's business, as it were, to project the sucess of a group of retailers.   That's their job.

When Nintendo submits their quarterly and fiscal year data, it goes to the SEC.  So even legally, they must report direct sales rather than consumer sales.

I wasn't meaning that they would want to project the success of the retailer but rather the success of their product to the consumer market.

Don't you think that shipments not selling would look just as bad?

It's like I said, they legally have to report sales to retailers, etc...

Prior to April 1, 2007, Sony was actually reporting units manufactured rather than units shipped.    They changed it to the industry standard of reporting sales to direct customers to comply with new SEC laws and regulations.

 

You also have to consider that they have no direct way to verify sold to consumer based projections.  Say they project console X to sell 20 million units.   You have to look at NPD, GfK Chart Track, Famitsu and Media Create just to get a somewhat vague idea how the console sold in the major territories.  That leaves out a lot of sales in emerging markets that don't have adequte sales tracking.  You coudl easily end up a million or two off from the tracking services but have in reality met your goal and never know it.