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playnext3 on 08 July 2008

this numbers are about shipped not sell



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hanafuda on 08 July 2008

So does shipped mean that Konami gave them away for free?



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shanbcn on 08 July 2008
trestres said:
I have to repeat it yet again... Konami would never know how many units were sold at retail. They just know how many they sold TO retail.

They will have much better idea of how many sold then Vgchartz.

 



Lafiel on 08 July 2008

it's probably "shipped" (or better, "sold to retail", for sony and konami already have their share of the money), but 1million+ copies lying around at retailer shelves sounds a bit high to me



ChichiriMuyo on 08 July 2008

The article says it is 3 million "at retail", wo how do we "know" that it is supposed to be "to retail?" Is there a specific reference someone would like to share?



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DMeisterJ on 08 July 2008

We were having an interesting argument over this in the news section a few days ago.

Activision said that they sold 300k of GH: DS in one week, so I said, it's obviously shipped, but no one (not even Trestres) said that they meant shipped and not sold, but apparently Activision knows what they actually sold because someone said that it was actually sold.

So, I'll take the Naznatipz approach to this:

Publishers have internal tracking, but like all sales tracking it's estimates. They base it off retail demand. In general a publisher will be vague about where something sold so that they can present the higher number (the shipment number) to the media and shareholders.


So, I don't know how correct this 3 million number is, but I still don't understand how it was okay for Guitar Hero DS, but not for MGS4.



shanbcn on 08 July 2008
DMeisterJ said:
We were having an interesting argument over this in the news section a few days ago.

Activision said that they sold 300k of GH: DS in one week, so I said, it's obviously shipped, but no one (not even Trestres) said that they meant shipped and not sold, but apparently Activision knows what they actually sold because someone said that it was actually sold.

So, I'll take the Naznatipz approach to this:

Publishers have internal tracking, but like all sales tracking it's estimates. They base it off retail demand. In general a publisher will be vague about where something sold so that they can present the higher number (the shipment number) to the media and shareholders.


So, I don't know how correct this 3 million number is, but I still don't understand how it was okay for Guitar Hero DS, but not for MGS4.

Its easy to understand why its ok for Nintendo game but not for PS3 games, you have been here long enough.

 



Lafiel on 08 July 2008

@ ChichiriMuyo )

the text says "According to Hirai, MGS4 has sold more than 3 million units worldwide in its first two weeks at retail." - the "at retail"-part just says, that the game has been available at retail for 2 weeks when those numbers were reached, not that the "3 million units" were sold "at retail"



tuoyo on 08 July 2008

Oh no not another of these threads!!!



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kirby007 on 08 July 2008

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