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shanbcn on 06 January 2011

GT5 got 2nd shipment even in Japan. 5.5 million is must likely sold or they just repeated early number. Anyway in couple of weeks we should get official numbers.



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BMaker11 on 06 January 2011
ultima said:

When Sony says sold, it means sold to retailers; they have no direct interaction with the end-user.

So, it means that about half a million copies remain on the shelves by VGC data; which doesn't seem too unreasonable, imo, especially at this time of year.

They "shipped" (claiming sold) 5.5M. They wouldn't say "sold" again (meaning shipped in actuality), unless it actually sold that amount to the consumer. Or has GT5 sold 0 copies in the last month?



Mordred11 on 06 January 2011

If we do have it undertracked here on this site,I bet most of the numbers that are off are from that damn Christmas week,when GT5 decreased...>__>...That is the only week when ''something didn't seem right'',to me at least.



jarrod on 06 January 2011

CGI-Quality said:

This is where my confusion lies. They reiterate the 5.5 million sold number. In it's first two weeks, it shipped 5.52mill copies. Seems to make sense that it's sold through that shipment by now, right? VGC has it at 4.89 mill currently, but I could see an adjustment here soon, even if it's just to like 5.2mill copies.

There's no confusion, they're most likely just repeating the previously made public figure.  Kaz didn't give any timetable or clarification, didn't cite any source (if it's indeed sold through), so the most likely course is just a regurgitated number.



palancas7 on 06 January 2011

*sigh*

All they did was repeat that they shipped 5.5m in the first 12 days.



 

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Munkeh111 on 06 January 2011
palancas7 said:

*sigh*

All they did was repeat that they shipped 5.5m in the first 12 days.

Thank you, I am very tired of having to listen to this stuff again



Nsanity on 06 January 2011
palancas7 said:

*sigh*

All they did was repeat that they shipped 5.5m in the first 12 days.


Seriously?



palancas7 on 06 January 2011
Nsanity said:
palancas7 said:

*sigh*

All they did was repeat that they shipped 5.5m in the first 12 days.


Seriously?


Seriously.



 

jarrod on 06 January 2011
CGI-Quality said:
kowenicki said:
CGI-Quality said:

This is where my confusion lies. They reiterate the 5.5 million sold number. In it's first two weeks, it shipped 5.52mill copies. Seems to make sense that it's sold through that shipment by now, right? VGC has it at 4.89 mill currently, but I could see an adjustment here soon, even if it's just to like 5.2mill copies.


I honestly think you are looking for something that isn't there..

Such as?

About 300k UNDERTRACKEDZ!



jjseth on 06 January 2011

More reason why I take numbers with a grain of Salt from VGC.   While it tends to be fairly decent at tracking numbers, it doesn't get hard sales data directly from every retailer out there and there will always be adjustments made on everything. 

 

Myself, I bought GT5 last week, and I had to run to 3 different stores before I finally found one that had 1 in stock (got the last one at Target that day).   I would find it difficult to believe that there wasn't any shipments after the initial ones within the first couple weeks of release if Sony claimed that 5.5 million was shipped/sold back then.  4 weeks later and they state 5.5 million sold seems to be likely and it's not out of the realm of possibility either that a big adjustment of 10% is forthcoming from VGC. 

I would have a feeling that a company that makes the game should have an accurate gauge on how well it sold.  It's not like ET from the 80's.



 


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