>>716170312They did. Read the bottom. These are not official numbers, but "estimations" by a consultancy firm that charges game companies big sums of money for their sales data. Why would companies who know how much they sell want to pay someone to tell them how much they sell? Don't be antisemetic.
>Source: Alinea Analytics PlayStation estimatesIf you want a fun ride, go to their website and view their weekly posts. Their "data" is inaccurate to every Steam scraping service. It shows plainly that they are either incapable, or they are fudging numbers so producers have favorable numbers to pass to an executive to hold over their head when they speak to investors.
>Won't they get in trouble for lying?No. They paid a consultancy firm to generate the numbers for them. If pushed about it, this magic phase can get them off of any responsibility:
>"We believe that the numbers from our consultants are accurate."Welcome to the game, where any numbers that aren't first party are a blatant lie. Try to avoid stepping in the swamp of devs announcing sales figures as "players", too.