Conduit June sales (NPD - 2 weeks) - 71,913

[mike_intellivision]

MontanaHatchet said:

If we can't trust NPD, who can we trust? Vgchartz? I do, but neither source is entirely accurate. I trust both sources, and I give NPD more weight for their larger sample size. We know how Vgchartz gathers data, but we don't know all the workings of it either. I say, go with whatever source tells you what you want to hear.

 

I am not saying that NPD is wrong or the VGC is right. To be honest, since we are talking about estimates, both are going to be wrong.

However, unless something has changed, NPD does not get data from two large sources of game sales -- Wal-Mart and Toys R Us.  And if you go in either of those chains, the Wii has the predominant display position -- which usually goes to the strongest item.

So it is quite within the realm of possibility that the methodology that NPD does not fully take into account sales at those places.  And people who swear that NPD is the end-all-to-be-all tend to forget that.

Remember, these are sales estimates.

Mike from Morgantown