Nintendo and VGChartz Number Comparisons

[Teeqoz]

Mr.Playstation said:

Teeqoz said:

No. Companies have to give as accurate shipped figures as possible. Depending on the quantities, they may report to the closest 100k, or in Nintendo's case, as the quantity isn't that big (compared to, say, the iPhone), they report for the closest 10k.

I meant that literally they ship to the nearest million such as if they would they would ship 10 million consoles before telling everyone how many consoles they've shipped. I'm sure that would be a greater achievement than 9.5 million shipped consoles, it even feels better and sounds like a lot of more units. Anyways whether it's shipped or sold or whether the wii U is overtracked or undertracked on VGC, I still thing VGC is very close.

Yeah but here's the problem with that: Nintendo has to give shipped numbers every 3 months in their quarterly financial report, and Nintendo can't just decide to ship enough to get to 10 million, they ship what retailers order.