Is Ubisoft lying about ZombiU?

[Seece]

KylieDog said:

Seece said:

You contradict yourself there, first shipments Ubi would have got their usual cut per copy regardless of what retailers sold it at.

That isn't how it works.  Well for mom and pop stores maybe, but not anywhere that deals in bulk and really matters like Gamestop.  Publishers and retail will work out an agreement so that if a game underperforms the publisher will accept/refund so get a smaller payment on excess copies, rather than have them shipped back.

Is far too risky for retail to stock more than they are sure to sell otherwise.

I guess it would all depend on how many copies Ubi shipped then (I'm guessing that data isn't available).