amirnetz on 17 April 2009
Why all the NPD hate here?
Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all consider the NPD numbers as a very accurate. And they know as they have their own internal shipping numbers and channel inputs to correlate with.
One of them (I think Microsoft) even said at one point that "they were amazed with the accuracy of NPD" (I will try to find a link).
The fact that all the console manufacturers agree that these are the definitive industry numbers should carry much more weight then the opinions of armchair analysts on the VGC forums.
Prediction made on 11/1/2008:
Q4 2008: 27M xbox LTD, 20M PS3 LTD . 2009 sales: 11M xbox, 9M PS3
