NPD to stop giving numbers to public?

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ioi said:
Just_Ben, if NPD are blocking everyone from using their figures that will include SimExchange.

I still find it a really interesting thing to do, what are they hoping to achieve?

I actually think it was inevitiable.

The closer VGChartz got to "official" NPD figures, the more irrelevant NPD became - and the less chance they had that someone would "pay" for identical figures.

By pulling public figures, it makes it harder for any site  to end up with similar numbers. And there isn't this whole public comparison of both sets of figures.

Can you imagine what would happen to NPD, if any of the platform holders released figures - which were closer to say VGChartz, than NPD? Their reputation would be completely shot.

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Being invisible, its much easier for them to perpetuate the thinking that NPD is "perfectly" accurate (they are still accepted as "the numbers" by the majority of the public - no one even considers that they could be wrong).