My understanding from business's I've worked in (and I'm happy to be wrong), is that so long as the invoice is in and processed* by the end of the reporting period then its counted within that period. It doesn't matter how long a shipment takes, Sony doesn't care if the shipment makes it out the door or not, all they care is that the order from the retailer is received and processed. At that point the sale is made and can be counted. Though you said sales = shipped to retailers, in reality sales = sales to retailers, with the shipment happening 1-7 days later.
*Companies can do tricks to count orders and invoices received but not yet processed in the reporting period even if the processing takes place afterwards, so long as the amount of the invoice is known before the end of the financial period.
But as I said, it won't make much difference in this case (maybe 100k tops?) so its merely an academic discussion at this point.
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