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. |
It doesn't work like that, developers/publishers get their money from actual retail sales and retailers take a percentage of that game which they sold, also logistics takes a piece from that. Shipped = on the shelves/availability of the games. And each individual sale is easily counted in the accounting, why do you think we have receipts? :D
