007BondAgent said:
outlawauron said:
007BondAgent said:
outlawauron said:
Phew, you're using shipped numbers to compare to what VGC said is sold. While it's very likely to be undertracked, there are still hundreds of thousands of copies on store shelves. |
Those numbers are way to precise to be considered "shipped" and where in the article does it say these numbers are actually shipped? or any article regarding these sales for that matter
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Anyone time a publisher releases sales information, it is ALWAYS shipped. The only way we can know how much something has been sold (ie. from retailers by you and me) is whenever a tracking service (ex. NPD, Media Create, Famitsu, Chart Track, etc.) release numbers. They're the only ones that have this information.
Nintendo does do some internal tracking for Europe, but that's done in coordination with European trackers.
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Once again, the numbers are far to precise to be shipped, and your acting like recieving raw numbers is impossible, and what about gears of war 3's first week numbers? they weren't shipped at all.. so that kind off ruins the always part off your comment
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lolwut. It should be the opposite. Numbers can only be controlled by what it is shipped. You also need to understand that companies putting out press releases at milestones, so whenever they hit x million, "X game has now sold x copies!".
A publisher can also easily reveal what they've shipped in the first week. I don't see how that combats what I'm saying.
And yes, receiving raw numbers is pretty tough to do, which is why publishers pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for other companies to do it for them.
