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RJ_Sizzle said:
Who knew leaking video game numbers would be so... intense? In Japan, it's not even an issue. Here? You may as well be Edward Snowden. Just having access to the numbers makes you a dead man.

In Japan the companies release the numbers themselves. Media Create, Famitsu and Dengeki release the lists to the public every Thursday. Nothing is leaked.

The reason that the numbers in Japan are distributed publicly by the companies themselves is because there is competition between all of them for clients. The NPD Group operates a monopoly in the U.S. and also has retailer and publisher pressure which keeps the numbers private.