007BondAgent said:
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.
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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
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None of the companies ever say its "shipped". Because to them, they sell to stores, not consumers. So, to them its always sold.... to a store. You're new to the site, but this is the same discussion we have every few months with new folks.
RETAILER TERMS:
"sold" = "sold to retailer" = "shipped"
VGC, NPD, MediaCreate, other sales trackers terms:
"sold" = "sold to consumer" = "sold"
The only time you'll ever see what anyone would classify as actually sold to consumers information from Nintendo or MS or Sony is when they clearly state this data is from NPD or other tracking company. Nintendo does not, nor any manufacturer, get the actual sellthrough of their product from the retailers. They get it from NPD, MediaCreate, and others.
So, unless I read your OP wrong and they are citing a tracking agency, this is sold to retailers, i.e. shipped information.
