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Ocilayton said:

Alright so I recently got in a argument about this. 

Do games make a  company money when they are shipped to the retailer or when they are actually sold to a consumer?

An IGN user insisted it was the former while I've always thought it was the latter.

What's right?


9/10 the company gets paid when they ship and retailers buy games from them. Thats also why you see games going at bomba prices when they cant get rid of stock, because they cant just return it back to the publisher.