They announced that BF3 shipped 10m which is true since they cant lie about it. But later on they said it sold 5m first week WW which clearly isnt the case after latest NPD results. At must it sold 3.5m including digital sales. Atleast Activision used Chartrack as source for 6.5m first day figure for MW3 in USA and Uk. Anyway it will be long time before BF3 need another shipment.

First, even if 5 mio. is the wrong number, chances are they came up with most accurate estimate they could get at the time and used that.

Secondly, NPD is US-only, so its numbers are a bit limited. VGC has the first week sales for BF3 at around 4 mio. (not counting Japan where it wasn't released when EA said 5 mio.), and if you include digital sales and account for PR-talk, 5 mio. probably isn't a terrible guess.

US =/= the world

It sold 2.4m at best in USA and UK first week, two biggest markets for FPS. According to ioi MW3 sold 2.4m ( i think) in rest of the world compared to 6.5m in USA and UK first day. Just to give you the idea how wrong you guys are.

Because clearly your evidence is strong enough to label EA as liars.

Yeah for MW3, 75% of total sales is USA and UK.

Is Canada included in the USA.

Because that is few 100 k of sales.

COD black ops did around 1.3 million sales in Canada.

Pretty much this.

Yep strong enough unless you believe it sold 2.6m in rest of the world and only 2.4m in UK and USA which represents 75% of FPS market even when including digital sales.

They want their game to sound better!

If Battlefield sold ~2 million in USA it means 2.5 million or more in NA (including digital sales).
Battlefield is bigger in EMEAA.
Battlefield is very strong on PC (which is undertracked).