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What is there to doubt?
FFXVI only shipped + digitally sold 3 million at launch, shipment is to retailers, not to consumers.
Let's say XVI had 50% physical digital split, let's say it sold 1.20m digital, so the shipment to retailers was 1.80m, and from within that shipment to retailers 1.20m sold to consumers, so in total actually 2.4 million sold to consumers, leaving 600k of unsold shipment.
XVI never charted on the PSN digital chart top 10 so it did not sell anything significant digitally, it also fell off ever physical chart quite quickly too, however its price was always cheaper from retailers because of discounts than it was digitally, so the majority of its post launch sales would be from within the remaining unsold physical stock retailers had from launch from WITHIN the 3m launch figure, not figure going over the initial 3m number.
Steam has it at about 500k, so that is 500k digital sold, so while it looks on the surface only 500k more sold since the 3m launch number, in reality, the remaining unsold shipment would have been selling slowly over the last year and 9 months, and that can easily figure to 1m once you count the physical shipment being sold plus the Steam sales together.
It did not actually sell through 3 million at launch, when SE says "3m Sold", that means that the combined figure of retailers purchasing stock PLUS what it sold digitally from consumers.
Physical stock is only sold to consumers through retailers. And SE's actual PR specifically said "shipment plus digital sales", even though the image just says "3m sold", that was part of the PR to make XVI look like it did better than it did.
As far as the actual Yasuda post goes, he is posting about the most recent financial quarters for multiple japanese publishers in his post, and his mention of XVI is a "btw XVI has sold 3.5m according to SE president from the earnings pres".
The SE Q&A doesn't always have exact transcripts of what is said during the earnings calls, for example when multiple shareholders stated that Kiryu stated that XVI did not meet the high end of expectations, the actual report had PR revision done to it to negate that damaging news as much as possible.
Hell there isn't a single SE report that has any mention of how Balan Wonderworld sold or even them saying it underperformed, but you can be sure that stuff was mentioned during the earnings call in person but nobody felt the need to mention it, the PR for the Q&A leave out damaging or possibly negative news that could harm their stock prices. When XVI was stated to have not met the high end of expectations the stock price fell, SE tried to mitigate that by not having that line mentioned in the Q&A that was posted, and instead a revised "it was inline with expectations" which says nothing, because that just as easy mean they expected it to underperform and it did, but its a less negative sounding phase than what 3 different people corroborated to hearing at the earnings call.
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