Watch_Dogs sold over 4 millions units during its first week

[outlawauron]

Kasz216 said:

outlawauron said:

Sold through doesn't necessarily mean that. There's no point in discussing it because it's all assumption. I believe publishers define their customers differently than what we do. It's a PR speak meant to paint the most positive light on it.

Maybe I should stop, I have been told I'm a Nintendo fanboy who likes to downplay Sony and MS.

@ Kasz

Sony shifted from shipped to warehouses to shipped to retailers a little bit into the PS3 era. The verbage never really changed.

yeah i remember that part, however, I thought that shipped to retailers was termed "Sellthrough to consumers" before it became shipped... and that shipped to consumers was termed something like "End Users Purchases" or something crazy like that.

It's very rare that a publisher will explicitly say it's shipped numbers. Each one has their own spin on it. If publishers could accurately track sales numbers, they wouldn't pay NPD, chart track, etc. the amount of money they do every month.