Ka-pi96 said:
What do you mean? All publishers count sales to retailers as sales (what we call shipped) and report that. All publishers also include digital sales in their figures. And I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that it's shipped considering that's much easier to track. Publishers should know how many copies of a game they have sold to retailers. But bringing together data from the hundreds/thousands of different retailers across the world to find out how many they've sold and how many they still have on shelves in each individual store is a much harder task. |
Were that the case, then we'd have treated all publisher sources as shipped numbers, yet we haven't done so before, have we? (Yes, we have at times, but not all the time).
Not to mention that if it works the way you say, they are only tracking their physical copies. You can't track a number that's liable to change at any given moment by using numbers other than percentage of the physical sales or revenue after an specific amount of time. In other words, there's no reason to think this includes digital other than downplay. For all we know it might, but it might not. Frank is not a publisher, he's staff, so he might or might not be using the corporate lingo you're expecting...
Not to mention this data is outdated. It probably already did this and built the remaining million to top the first two Halos, which would put this game in line with the OG Xbox Halos' and that is sort of justified, seeing as their audience is of similar size...
