Again, this is pure assumption on your part. How do you know how long it takes for reliable sales figures to come through? It takes NPD over 2 weeks to come up with reliable figures and that's for ONE country! Knowing how conservative Nintendo is, i would guess their figures are from way before that date. As for your careful scrutiny of rough charts with little info, again i ask, why do you go to so much trouble? You are like a dog with a bone. I really thought you were going to give up with your Switch numbers obsession but i guess not.

i mean if they only shipped 14.87 million and they sold through 14.5 million like vgchartz suggest by next week, how would nintedo not know? they would have to ship more units to those other known regions and stock would be extremely low, giving a higher estimate for those other regions, but you are free to think what you want, these numbers are not facts, and i actually wanted to stop posting in theses threads till we had something official, but you kept mentioning me so i felt a need to reply.

People keep getting irked by how companies are able to achieve such up to date data but they have no idea that hardware vendors and OSVs (OS vendors) are all practically sophisticated enough use telemetry to gain such massive insights on statistics so any time users log in with a Switch system online means that data gets recorded and sent back to Nintendo ... 

Nintendo would most certainly have sales data up to date on a daily basis ...

i mean if they only shipped 14.87 million and they sold through 14.5 million like vgchartz suggest by next week, how would nintedo not know? they would have to ship more units to those other known regions and stock would be extremely low, giving a higher estimate for those other regions, but you are free to think what you want, these numbers are not facts, and i actually wanted to stop posting in theses threads till we had something official, but you kept mentioning me so i felt a need to reply.

it actually takes sony 2 days, and nintendo it took them 2 days to announce 10 million, its not assumption at all, ti doesn't take npd to get data lol, they just release it late, just look at nintendo when they announced 4.8 million in the US, it took them 3 days to release december data.

https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/nintendo-switch-is-fastest-selling-console-in-us-history-w514920

They used NPD figures! The date obviously correlated well with NPD numbers.

according to Nintendo’s internal sales figures.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-switch-is-the-fastest-selling-video-game-system-in-the-us-over-10-months.14237/

You do realize that Nintendo shipped 14.86 million as of December 31st, right? Do you seriously think that no units were shipped at all during January?