pressure from Sony, they where about to be crushed by the 360, and will for the forseeable future so to save face the pressured NPD to stop releasing numbers so they can release there own inflated numbers that are shipped to the warehouse and count those as sales to keep things close, other wise it would be a pr nightmare for sony to explain to investors why the 360 is wupping the ps3 in NPD

I'm not sure what the point of this whole thing is...

aw damn it, I read some idiotic conspiracy theories on Gaf about this NPD thing and I thought to myself "Makes me kind of proud I haven't seen that on VGC yet"  thanks for killing that joy for me.

There, there champ want me to buy you a Ice Cream?

you honestly think that it is sheer coincidense that the month Halo Reach comes out has nothing to do with the fact that the numbers are not being reported anymore? the 360 was set to be at 600k this month and the ps3 sub 300k

joke thread? And this is coming from a big 360 fan. That theory is just ridiculous.

I think you're seeing what you want to see.  You want to think that Sony is so ashamed that they would do something like this and you ignore the much simpler answer that NPD stopped giving out free numbers because it makes the numbers people pay for seem more worthwhile.  NPD could have picked this month because they know Reach is interesting info, or more likely it was just coincidence. 

Occam's Razor says that the simplest answer is often the right one, and the idea that NPD did this because it would make them more money is the simplest answer.  If you had a monopoly on something why would you give some of it away for free when you could charge for it?

edit: just to throw it out there, even if I use 5 weeks for September I can't get the numbers you're talking about from VGC numbers.  360: 554,499    PS3: 319,732

No, pressure from Microsoft so that no one can contradict them when they claim to sell >3 million Kinects this holiday!

And you honestly think a company will actually pressure them to stop posting there data? They've had it worse some months and each company has had their ups and downs.

I really don't think I can trust the integrity of someone with a console exlusive game as there name anyway on top of a bs consipracy that pretty much makes no sense at all.