Watch_Dogs sold over 4 millions units during its first week

[Kyo_86]

Kasz216 said:

Troll_Whisperer said:

outlawauron said:

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.

That sentence is pretty clearly formulated, but if you get a different idea from it we'll just have to disagree.

I've never seen a company use sold-through and mean shipped. Sold-through literally means sold to consumers. The term for shipped is sold-in (or just sold). Maybe you have some examples of sold-through being used for shipped, I don't know.

In any case, this game has outpaced ACIII (their previous record), which sold 3.1m week one on PS3 and X360.

So yes, this game has sold 4m copies, unless they sold 3.2m and just shipped 4m, which is very doubtful and would make the game impossible to find now.

I'm telling you, Sony totally has done it before at least.  I remember a whole big thing about "Sold through... to our customers, why would we mention end user sales in a release."

So it's not inconceivable, outside which, where are you even getting the NPD and internal data info from?

I don't see it on the blog, is there a different release i'm missing?  (Pet peve of mind... when articles don't quote the source.)

http://blog.ubi.com/watch-dogs-breaks-records/

I don't remember sony ever using "sold through" meaning shipped. They used to just say "sold". And even if they used it doesn't mean Ubi is using like that as well, and assuming they are is quite a leap of faith since 99% of the time the industry use "sold through" to indicate sales to final consumers.

Anyway, increadible sales for the game. If UK sales are representative the game sold between 3.7x and 7x what Mario Kart 8 sold.