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007BondAgent on 23 October 2012

Vgchartz currently has pokemon black and white at 14.47m

But nintendo reported back in april, that pokemon black and white has actually sold 14.71m

http://mynintendonews.com/2012/04/29/worldwide-sales-figures-for-popular-nintendo-3ds-games/



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italo244 on 23 October 2012

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really?

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007BondAgent on 23 October 2012
italo244 said:
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really?

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Yep :P

the game is most likely over 15m now XD and i want it to beat diamond and pearl, so this is needed :)



sales2099 on 23 October 2012

Interesting.

Well this isnt the first time a couple hundred thousand have been misplaced. But considering how much the games sold, its a relatively negligible number.



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lestatdark on 23 October 2012

It might be a negligible difference or shelve numbers, since there's still a very large amount of copies of the original White and Black games on game stores.

Still a very impressive number no matter what .



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007BondAgent on 23 October 2012

I don't think nintendo uses shelves numbers, plus there is no need to use shelve numbers when it comes to pokemon.

Plus the numbers are far to odd for selve numbers, anyways i hope this get's fixed soon.



superchunk on 24 October 2012
007BondAgent said:
I don't think nintendo uses shelves numbers, plus there is no need to use shelve numbers when it comes to pokemon.

Plus the numbers are far to odd for selve numbers, anyways i hope this get's fixed soon.

shipped vs sold

No manufactuer/publisher/etc reports real "sold to consumer" numbers. That's the job of VGChartz, Mediacrate, NPD, and so on.

Nintendo's numbers are always "sold to retailers", which is the same thing as shipped. It will and should always be higher than what is report on VGC, within reason.

When it comes to consoles, VGC is as accurate as anything else available.
When it comes to games, VGC may be a bit more off when you're looking at game that are heavily bundled, digitally sold, rare/niche, etc. A game like this its going to be a fair bit closer and probably as accurate as anything else available.

Nintendo as of April SHIPPED 14.7m units. As of today its probably shipped a few hundred thousand more, especially considering B/W2 was coming and is out now. Maybe they've shipped over 15m... maybe. But they certainly haven't SOLD that many. VGC says its sold 14.5m meaning ~500k are on shelves or being shipped worldwide. That is reasonable. Maybe a little high, but nothing to worry anyone into changing anything.



007BondAgent on 25 October 2012
superchunk said:
007BondAgent said:
I don't think nintendo uses shelves numbers, plus there is no need to use shelve numbers when it comes to pokemon.

Plus the numbers are far to odd for selve numbers, anyways i hope this get's fixed soon.

shipped vs sold

No manufactuer/publisher/etc reports real "sold to consumer" numbers. That's the job of VGChartz, Mediacrate, NPD, and so on.

Nintendo's numbers are always "sold to retailers", which is the same thing as shipped. It will and should always be higher than what is report on VGC, within reason.

When it comes to consoles, VGC is as accurate as anything else available.
When it comes to games, VGC may be a bit more off when you're looking at game that are heavily bundled, digitally sold, rare/niche, etc. A game like this its going to be a fair bit closer and probably as accurate as anything else available.

Nintendo as of April SHIPPED 14.7m units. As of today its probably shipped a few hundred thousand more, especially considering B/W2 was coming and is out now. Maybe they've shipped over 15m... maybe. But they certainly haven't SOLD that many. VGC says its sold 14.5m meaning ~500k are on shelves or being shipped worldwide. That is reasonable. Maybe a little high, but nothing to worry anyone into changing anything.


With nintendo releasing the latest data, and the number being far to odd to be shipped, this is infact sold, if you have any proof to prove otherwise, then please show me, but i believe these numbers are real and nintendo didn't state this was shipped



BradleyJ on 25 October 2012
007BondAgent said:

With nintendo releasing the latest data, and the number being far to odd to be shipped, this is infact sold, if you have any proof to prove otherwise, then please show me, but i believe these numbers are real and nintendo didn't state this was shipped

Your logic is laughably flawed. I applaud you.



007BondAgent on 25 October 2012
BradleyJ said:
007BondAgent said:

With nintendo releasing the latest data, and the number being far to odd to be shipped, this is infact sold, if you have any proof to prove otherwise, then please show me, but i believe these numbers are real and nintendo didn't state this was shipped

Your logic is laughably flawed. I applaud you.


why would nintendo ship such an odd number, seriously 14.71m? no way, that's easily sold, vgchartz needs to fix this :P