From: darkphoenix181 | #001Shipped =/= Sold.
Oh really? Last time I checked retailers didn't get items for free nor do they pay Sony/Microsoft only when customers buy off the shelf.
Not only that, the mentality here is that retailers just aimlessly stock up on products despite whether customers are actually buying them or not.
You're missing the point entirely. hell you're not even trying.
Shipped is sold to retailers, yes. So it counts as a sale of sorts. The reason people says shipped =/= sold, is because most use it as a gauge to prove that x product is selling like hotcakes and therefore popular, when it's just retailer stock, not end user stock.
It very well could be end user stock, but that isn't a number that can be easily tracked, if at all.
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