The Official December NPD 2008 Thread

[Avinash_Tyagi]

mrstickball said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

mrstickball said:
Then I must ask where are the shipments going? Japan has seen reduced Wii hardware sales the entire year - and you'd assume Nintendo diverted the shipments to elsewhere (NA/Europe). Don't you think they'd have a YoY increase similar to what we're seeing in Europe, if supplies were even?

  Maybe NPD is just plain wrong?

And if thats the case, does that mean VGC is just plain right? NPD does have that advantage of tracking a significantly higher portion of the market, making it far less likely VGC would be right, and NPD wrong. What if NPD is wrong, and the Wii actually sold 1.7m units in December?

At any rate, we'll need to wait and see Nintendo's shipping report before declaring VGC right or wrong.

 

 

 Just because NPD tracks a larger portion of the market doesn't necessarily mean that at any one time they will be more accurate, they are still sampling the market, and if their sample methods are off for eample, then they can still be very wrong.

But you're right, we won't know for sure until the financial data arrives in two weeks