How much will Hyrule Warriors 3D sell?

[MikeRox]

ZhugeEX said:

ExplodingBlock said:

Tecmo Koei said they shipped 1m copies a couple of months ago and VgChartz says .92m as of April 4

That's why I used the phrase "around 1m"

They shipped over 1 million back in January.

 

VGChartz make up their numbers for this game. 

VGChartz make up their numbers for every game. I'm not sure some people quite understand how estimates work...

As more data is obtained, those estimates are then amended accordingly, hence the occasional revisions up and down. The slower burners will generally slip through the radar, as the main information sources are things like NPD for the West. However they only give figures for select things in software. Especially anything outside the top 20 there is very little to go off other than how it's done at some of the retailers I understand VGC work with?

But yeah, VGC is "estimates" it baffles me why some people take the figures so literally as fact. Tracking the sales of a single title across multiple territories would be a huge undertaking, even IF figures were published in every territory and every publisher/developer announced every single landmark sales data event. However we only tend to hear about the winners, because if a game underperforms, companies generally want to keep that quieter because otherwise it might spook shareholders etc. They also don't always want the competition knowing exactly how they are performing (could encourage more clones trying to grab their sales).