DMeisterJ on 08 July 2008
We were having an interesting argument over this in the news section a few days ago.
Activision said that they sold 300k of GH: DS in one week, so I said, it's obviously shipped, but no one (not even Trestres) said that they meant shipped and not sold, but apparently Activision knows what they actually sold because someone said that it was actually sold.
So, I'll take the Naznatipz approach to this:
Publishers have internal tracking, but like all sales tracking it's estimates. They base it off retail demand. In general a publisher will be vague about where something sold so that they can present the higher number (the shipment number) to the media and shareholders.
So, I don't know how correct this 3 million number is, but I still don't understand how it was okay for Guitar Hero DS, but not for MGS4.
