Watch_Dogs sold over 4 millions units during its first week

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DerNebel said:

QuintonMcLeod said:

DerNebel said:

Like MK8 this is of course shipped+digital, still absolutely crazy numbers.

This and MK and TLOU last year really makes you wonder why publishers don't put out more games in the spring and summer.

Edit: Maybe not shipped, the press release says sold-through...that's even more insane.

But Nintendo said sold... 

There's a difference between sold and sold through

When a company says "sold", then you should take that as shipped to retailers (cause that is sold for them) unless they specify otherwise.

And one way to specify otherwise is by saying "sold through" which basically means sold to customers.

Again, could be a mistake from Ubisofts' PR guys though.

When Sony said they sold 1 million PS4s in 24 hours, no one interpreted that as "shipped". Same with the WD numbers. No one is saying "Oh, these are shipped numbers." However, with Mario Kart 8 - oh no, of course not. There's no way Nintendo sold that many. Yeah, these numbers are shipped. Yep. Now I can sleep better at night.