Aielyn said:
I suggest you review basic mathematics, since my description does work out to 6 million digital, as supernihilist notes. That being said, I was working purely off intuition. Didn't think to look at actual numbers from previous quarters. Examination of the actual numbers gives us a better estimate of percentages, and I was overly optimistic. http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2013/131031e.pdf By the end of September, New Leaf had sold 6.35 million copies total. It was under 5 million retail according to VGChartz. This represents roughly 21% digital. Noting that its retail Christmas sales were a little slower than you'd expect, I think you'll find that the proportion of digital downloads will be somewhat higher since then. I'd guess somewhere around 25%. So I'd actually estimate New Leaf, assuming VGChartz hasn't mistracked (in either direction), to be somewhere around 8 million with digital included. My main point, that digital sales mean that we don't know which one is actually ahead, remains valid. |
Yes, I see your point just not the impact your saying it has. I'm sure all these have missing digital sales not inlcuded in the totals listed in this thread, however Pokemon has digtal sales not listed here too and that would put it still well ahead of animal crossing and the other games here.