| AsGryffynn said: I seem to recall whenever a publisher released numbers, we said they were sales and rarely argued it was shipped. I am not saying they can't track it, but rarely have digital sales been tracked. I have very rarely heard of it and most of it comes from Steam games. I can't really think of any game for the Xbox One whose sales numbers have been announced that has had the digital sales included in them. Plus, digital games are always sold through, so there's no reason to include them with shipped numbers. You cannot ship digital stuff without selling it and as far as I know, they aren't that confused to merge the two together.
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That's not how it works, though. Developers always report digital plus shipped numbers for the very simple reason that that's how they make money. Whether or not retailers sell the copies that they ordered, doesn't matter. It only matters in terms of requesting more copies, thus making more money.
A copy shipped is a copy sold for the company that publishes the game.
