NPD to stop giving numbers to public?

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Sqrl said:

Honestly I think its fair to say NPD was instructive in the early stages of the site for helping ioi refine his process but my take on what has been going on with the numbers as of late is that ioi has refined it down to a point where I don't think you can really say one is more accurate than the other. They are both estimates and within a fairly small margin and at that point its anyone's guess as to who is closer to 100% accurate.

But the good thing is that its also close enough for folks like us not to worry about it and quarterly reports will always be around and are considered hard numbers which are far more important than just another set of soft numbers.

edit: PS - woohoo I crossed 2k posts!

So NPD will start releasing quarterly numbers only? That makes it kind of pointless, that's when the hardware companies release their shipped numbers anyway...

This is great news for vgchartz, but of course not such good news for everyone else. Less information is less information, period.

PS: I wonder if the existence of vgchartz caused or affected this decision.