Watch_Dogs sold over 4 millions units during its first week

[outlawauron]

Troll_Whisperer said:

outlawauron said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

outlawauron said:

tbone51 said:

Is this shipped+digital?

Yes it is and it always will be unless a publishers is citing a tracking service.

They are citing tracking services (asterisks). And they said sold-through.

No they are not. The aterisks were all for internal rewards and common sense (no other game will have come close, even if Mario Kart's 1.2 million shipment sold out). The only source for the 4 million is how much Ubisoft sold through to retailers (they are Ubisoft's customers, not you). 

If you at the press release itself, you'll see they use tracking services and internal data to determine they're the number one selling new IP. None of it is explicitly tied to the 4 million sold/shipped figure.

...has sold-through more than 4 million copies in its first week, positioning it as the best-selling new IP at launch across the video game industry*

*based on NPD and GFK data and internal estimates as of June 3, 2014

Seems clear to me they are referring to both the 4m figure and beig no. 1.

That's because you're assuming it. I'm assuming that they're talking about it being the best selling new IP using the historical data the two services offer.