The Official October NPD Thread (Data at 6:30 PM EST ~3.5 hours)

[Dianko]

Max King of the Wild said:

Dianko said:

kutasek said:
The problem is, we don't know if they tracked LBP, unofficial week. If they were, than it is disappointing being outsold by socom.

Of course it's tracked. If it was sold, it would be entered into the database as a sale, early or not. They're not gonna simply sell it without any data being recorded into whatever retailers system.

 

 

 Uh... the problem here is that only a few stores broke release date. Who is to say that NPD recieved data from those stores? NPD gets data from a certain % of retailers then expands the numbers that they think the rest of the market would be. It's not like NPD has control of retailers data base.

Also I think Sony is confused with this recall along with retailers... whos to say trackers arent confused as well

I was never arguing that NPD isn't getting the full picture. I was stating that sales will tracked for LBP, whether it was unofficial or not. How that reflects on NPD, I don't know. But I was simply stating that retailers will track all sales, they don't do business under the table.