Lafiel on 29 January 2014
| Thoridias said: In statistics, you have to be keen to name your sales statistics correctly or risk backlash for wrong data and false advertising. Nintendo published as SALES. That means these are not shipped but sold units. Those skylanders bundles you saw lying around have not been acoounted here. |
No, these are numbers for investors. In that world it doesn't matter that the units haven't reached the consumer, they are "sold" once they are aquired by somebody else (in Nintendo's case, once they are "sold to retailers", which we on Vgchartz call "shipped"). That is the standard method of reporting sold units in every industry I am aware of.
