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Originally Posted by Snowman999
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The sales are already there and done. The rest is gravy. It shot to the top which means X amount of units have already sold.
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Baloney. The site the OP listed doesn't say what figures they're quoting. A "sale" is scanner-through-the-register to the end-user. With the game being released late last week in the US, and scanner data being sourced through syndicated data firms, there is no feasible way that a Web author could have an article up Monday morning, across a weekend, and have used real scanner sales data. And without scanner data from big-box stores there is no way this title could have outsold full-distribution titles like WOW simply on the basis of a few drop-ship stores like EB and Gamestop.
So what is he using? I don't know but I'd speculate he's using warehouse withdrawl data from Ubi itself, or perhaps even flat ships from the packing sub-contractor to distributors--way, WAAAY up the supply chain from retail sales. In an industry that sells to retailers on a consignment basis it is lunacy to call that volume "sales." But if one did it's very possible SH4 shipped more boxes into the supply chain than titles like WOW and Stalker. Why? Because their snake is already full out to the shelf in store, while SH4 is MIA in big-box as yet.
Figures lie and liars figure. As of 90 minutes ago Target does not have any SH4 in store. |
Seemed to have forgotten the pre-orders, money down and paid for games. Also, is there no EB Games around your way? I ordered mine last Tuesday and received it last Thursday. Two days:hmm:. Just food for thought for you. Targets big market is not video games therefore they might have it, they may not. Possible they will never have it. Try a store that lives and dies by game sales
