Ka-pi96 said:
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.
This is not excluding digital sales to lower the number. The implication is the opposite. This is either the tip of the iceberg, or just the visible side of the moon.
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Again, publishers don't report 'shipped' sales, so they have no reason to exclude digital. They just report sales. We are the ones that use the 'shipped/sold' terms. Publishers reports are always shipped+digital and are referred to on their end simply as sales.
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People are really thinking that those numbers don't include Digital ?. So, in the first PR of the year when Microsoft stated the number of Windows 10 downloaded and that every game of their Line-up sold more than 1 Million of units, why they don't released the numbers if they had 5+ Shipped/sold + Digital (some people are saying that it sold 7+ Millions by now).
