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HikenNoAce said:
MDMAlliance said:
HikenNoAce said:
Those are the only official numbers we will ever get. How many 3DSs were sold to customers in Papua New Guinea or New Caledonia or in the US - there's no way to know what those numbers are. Even NPD numbers are estimates and educated guesses.

In addition to the above, from the publisher's perspective, those shipped numbers are sold numbers. When people say X million of iPhones were sold, it's how many iPhones were shipped.


Shipped =/= Sold.  It only counts as sold to the manufacturer.  

Also, these "guesses" and "estimates" you refer to have a degree of accuracy to them.  It would be too complicated to explain them to you.

Also, when people say X million consoles sold, they DON'T mean shipped unless they are a confused journalist.


People may not mean shipped but those are the numbers that they use. For example:

http://marketingland.com/apple-earnings-beat-expectations-on-solid-iphone-sales-52735

http://au.ign.com/articles/2011/10/27/nintendo-3ds-sales-total-668-million

http://au.gamespot.com/news/playstation-3-sells-70-million-units-worldwide-6400177

People always use shipped numbers because that's all that we have.


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73938838&postcount=24
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73940823&postcount=75
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73942858&postcount=128
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73949123&postcount=206
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73950873&postcount=223
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73952058&postcount=230
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73957843&postcount=289
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73983218&postcount=403
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73983963&postcount=408
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=74008663&postcount=498

Read these posts.  You'll see that you wouldn't want to rely on # shipped if you want to calculate how much of that system sold in a year.  TWO potential problems occur.  #1 is that shipment for that year may NOT translate at all to how many sold and it DOES matter to the manufacturer.  If they overship one year, the number shipped that year effectively will be higher than the actual number sold and #2 CONSEQUENTLY LOWER the following year due to reasons people explain from your beloved site MULTIPLE times above.