I believe that 1.1 Million "shipped" / "sold to retailer" figure included shipment to US & Europe, since Bayonetta is released Jan 5 in US and Jan 8 in Europe. Shipment to US & Europe should have around 1 week to 2 week lead time, so by Dec 31, SEGA would have shipped the first shipment of retailer order and book the figure into their financial report.
This game coulbe be one of those that will have big difference between shipped and sold to customer, just like Conduit and Mad World.
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Bayonetta only sold 196K so far in Japan.
I believe that 1.1 Million "shipped" / "sold to retailer" figure included shipment to US & Europe, since Bayonetta is released Jan 5 in US and Jan 8 in Europe. Shipment to US & Europe should have around 1 week to 2 week lead time, so by Dec 31, SEGA would have shipped the first shipment of retailer order and book the figure into their financial report.
This game coulbe be one of those that will have big difference between shipped and sold to customer, just like Conduit and Mad World.