Max King of the Wild said:
BKK2 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Dianko said:
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.
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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
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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.
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And my point was the the hectic release is leaving retailers confused which would leave NPD confused.
Also it won't be tracked if NPD doesn't get any sales data for it.
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The SKU will still get tracked by the EPOS regardless of if it was sold before or after the official release date. We often see games with broken street dates in PAL charts before the official release, it certainly doesn't confuse the retailers EPOS systems.
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But does NPD get the data from the stores that broke the date? Yes it would still be recorded for the store obviously but the only way NPD gets the sale is if they get the data.
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If the chain of retailers that NPD gets data from had stores that sold LBP early, it will be included. If a chain of retailers doesn't give their data to NPD but sold LBP early, then it will be estimated based on the data that NPD does have. Not a 100% but they can get fairly close because they have enough early sales numbers to estimate the rest based on whatever formula they use.
