Don´t believe always all this "official sales". I can tell you big companies, like Activision, "sell" thousands of games on first months to distributors for putting their games on top of those lists. But they are years after selling them at discounted prices.
Call of Duty is the best example.
Before Ghosts, Activision NEVER reduced the price of a game before the announcement of the previous one. NEVER. You could go to a distributor and they sold you the game at the same price for almost a year.
What happened with Ghosts? After all this time, many distributors still have "day one" copies of the game supposedly sold "on the first month" for NPD or GFK purposes. I've seen the boxes with the "embargo paper" on it. In fact. We could access to reduced prices very few months later because demand was SO low. The game, today, we sell it (I work on a retail store) at the lowest price EVER for a CoD game. The same happened (not that bad) with Advanced Warfare.
Evolve? Pfff... I don't know how they launch another edition when distributors are offering the game (day one) at ridiculous prices... and even then we possibly won't buy it because NOBODY FUCKING CARE about the game.
DON'T trust on this NPD monthly software rankings. They can say games are "sold" but they don't say to who. I can tell you, many of them are "sold" to distributors who keep the games for months and sold them, most of the times, specially on this generation, for very low prices months or even years later.
We just received, last week, several boxes of Bloodborne that were "sold" to Sony Latinoamerica (where, by the way, Mark Stanley made a very bad job before leaving, buying a lot of stuff they couldn't sell after years) and the game now is at half price with good margin of profit.
