VGChartz Wii U Software Sales Update?

[outlawauron]

ZyroXZ2 said:

RolStoppable said:
VGC tracks sell-through of boxed products, so even if digital copies did not exist, VGC's numbers have to be lower than Nintendo's by default (who report shipped).

Also, the document clearly states that digital sales are included in the totals.

Yup, just saw that it says it includes "downloadable versions".

Also, if they include digital with shipped, that can't be correct... Manufacturers don't always use shipped-only figures (they're perfectly capable of getting sales numbers for their own products), and if they're including digital, digital is a "sold" unit.  Combining sold and unsold units wouldn't be professional, no?

I think those numbers are actual sales, versus "shipped"... I could be wrong, but nothing screams "shipped" in that document...  And they have to be pretty clear about stuff like that for financial reports...

Unless quoting a tracking service, publishers are quoting shipped numbers because they're unable to track their own sales. This is why they pass hundreds of thousands of dollars to NPD, chart track, etc.