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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Zelda Wind Waker HD, Super Mario 3D World, and Wii Party U all Break 1 Million Units Sold

the_dengle on 29 January 2014
chidori-chan2 said:
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/71407/the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker/

Zelda is undertracked vg chartz should fix this.

The difference is probably in digital sales.

Anyway, that makes six million-sellers on Wii U by the end of December, right?



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Rogerioandrade on 29 January 2014

And then we see clearly now that we can´t judge a game success or failure just checking its retail sales.... there is a good amount of digital sales on Nintendo software.



Soundwave on 29 January 2014
TanukiTrooper said:



It seems the hardware totals are a little undertracked too. These sales are from the end of 2013. So by now hopefully the Wii U is about to cross the threshold of 6 million, unless January has been worse than 50,000 units a week.


You need to understand these are SHIPMENTS ... not sell through. Nintendo likely has a lot of stock sitting at retail or in warehouses. Ancedontal of course but my local Best Buy has a mountain of Wii U Skylanders bundles that they weren't able to move over the holidays. 



007BondAgent on 29 January 2014

Wish they gave out pokemon's sales



zorg1000 on 29 January 2014
007BondAgent said:
Wish they gave out pokemon's sales


They did, 11.6 million.



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Thoridias on 29 January 2014

In statistics, you have to be keen to name your sales statistics correctly or risk backlash for wrong data and false advertising. Nintendo published as SALES. That means these are not shipped but sold units. Those skylanders bundles you saw lying around have not been acoounted here.



Soundwave on 29 January 2014
Thoridias said:

In statistics, you have to be keen to name your sales statistics correctly or risk backlash for wrong data and false advertising. Nintendo published as SALES. That means these are not shipped but sold units. Those skylanders bundles you saw lying around have not been acoounted here.


Sorry chief, lol, virtually all electronics corporations use SHIPPED sales, not sell through for their financial reports. Sony and Microsoft do the same. 

Not only are units still on store shelves accounted for, but units in transit or in other areas of the retail channel (ie: warehouses) also are accounted for. 



Viper1 on 29 January 2014
Thoridias said:

In statistics, you have to be keen to name your sales statistics correctly or risk backlash for wrong data and false advertising. Nintendo published as SALES. That means these are not shipped but sold units. Those skylanders bundles you saw lying around have not been acoounted here.

To us, they are shipped units.  To manufacturers, they are sold units because retail, distributors, wholesalers, etc...bought them.  We are not the direct customer to a manufacturer (except for digital distribution).



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TomaTito on 29 January 2014

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Lafiel on 29 January 2014
Thoridias said:

In statistics, you have to be keen to name your sales statistics correctly or risk backlash for wrong data and false advertising. Nintendo published as SALES. That means these are not shipped but sold units. Those skylanders bundles you saw lying around have not been acoounted here.

No, these are numbers for investors. In that world it doesn't matter that the units haven't reached the consumer, they are "sold" once they are aquired by somebody else (in Nintendo's case, once they are "sold to retailers", which we on Vgchartz call "shipped"). That is the standard method of reporting sold units in every industry I am aware of.