Halo 5 sold 5 million in 3 months!

[naruball]

AsGryffynn said:

naruball said:

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.

If so, then how do we break this down? How do we know how many copies were actually sold through? 

Based on official numbers from Sony/MS/Ninty we can't. That's why for sold through numbers we have to rely on NPD/ Famitsu/Media Create and other trackers and even those cannot provide precise numbers, just good estimates.