Miyamotoo on 02 February 2019
| Kai_Mao said: I saw this while trying to understand units sold vs. shipped: http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/28/shipped-and-sold-a-brief-introduction/ Does it really matter the significance between the two? Nintendo gets money once a unit of a game or console is shipped, right? |
Shipped means "sold in" to stores or retailers, while "sold" refers to "sold through" to consumers. So yeah, Nintendo sold consoles in both cases, just in shipped case they counting consoles in stores and retailers also.
