All the Japanese pubs use the term "shipped" to equate "physical shipments + digital sell-through". Usually in their official wording its often stated as "shipped + digital sales" and small PR/tweets shorthand that to "shipped". It's not really ever done any other way (why would they care to PR physical shipments and exclude digital sales?).

To Capcom shipped is sold. Retailers can't send back copies after they've ordered them.

When Sony gives out sales numbers, they clarify it as sell through.

Yes, and they also give "shipped" numbers from time to time, and those numbers never exclude digital sales.

I don't remember the last time Sony actually gave shipping data aside from hardware. Every time they give an update on sales, they refer to it as "sell through," as we can see in the PR announcements for Spiderman, TLOU2, GoT, etc.

Yeah probably not for a specific title recently.  But they report aggregate shipped software every quarter and that includes digital version of games.

I don't think they do that either. They make note that reported software is sold.

I'm not sure where this discussion is leading, is your theory that Capcom's reported 3m is only physical?

No.  They (and other pubs) recognize revenue on software sold to retailers (shipped/sold-in physical units + download cards), physical software sold directly from Sony's online store to consumers, and digital software sold via PSN directly to consumers.  They do not recognize revenue on retail sell-through to consumers, hence they would not present the data that way in their quarterly public financial releases.  That makes little sense.

It's a loss for Square Enix if a new publisher enters the Top 30. When Fitness Boxing 2 & Rune Factory 5 replace Trials of Mana at the Top 30 it would be logical outcome based on the efforts Square has put onto the Switch, compared to Marvelous & Imagineer. These companies are making gains while Square, Bandai will probably be fall further behind this year and having smaller companies eat into their share of the Top 30 result. Its normal for the Top 30 numbers to fluctuate overall while expanding the total of the Top 30, Konami has gone from around 500K sales to 3 million in under one year. Capcom will probably go from 350K to over 4 million end of year. 

Overtime Bandai for example has gone down from over 2 million sales in the Top 30 to under 1.85 million, it's logical if someone replaces you for you to have less representation. There is plenty of Bandai games outside of the Top 30 but I think the Top 30 does highlight how little support they've provided to the Switch, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 & Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, will both also exit the Top 30 at some point and will be replaced by the likes of SMT V, Shin-kun, Baseball Spirits, Monster Hunter Stories 2 etc.

Might make some changes end of summer and expand it into a Top 50, I do however to actually see 50 different third party games surpass 100K physical first on the Switch.