GHG
Member
It's the official data shared by the company to their shareholders. So real one.
And yes, in a report about their fiscal year to mention how many active players had the IP is a metric.
Highlighting it had the 2nd best release day in the franchise in terms of revenue, when the franchise has games that sold over 15M copies is a great metric.
Same goes announcing that the game had the best release day that any game of the company ever had in the store where the company sells the most. Knowing the company had many super successful game, that's great news.
When a company recaps their data for the shareholders they choose the ones that sound better for that period to highlight that the company, this or that IP or this or that game did a great job here or there.
And then they list all the financial data they are legally forced to show to their shareholders, plus a few extra bits more.
All of this only for the shares to continue to fall in to oblivion.
So what does that tell you?