One statement: To HELL with the NPD!
Why?
Because I'm tired of this type of information being so kept undercover like its some Masonic/Stonecutters/Skull & Bones kind of deal.
I'm surprised at some posters here coming to the rescue of NPD against VGChartz. VGChartz can only get better with time if they continue doing what they do now. Even with far less resources available to derive info from VGChartz gets right in the area of where the market is with very little margin of error. Imagine if they got more info available to them. They would be even better.
I seriously don't understand the protest to ioi's decisions. NPD is a monopoly and it's time to bust these boys up or we'll always be at their mercy when it comes to understanding how the markets go. Music industry, TV industry, movie industry have figures wide open and public. The figures are open and free for gameplayers in Japan. There's no excuse for all this crap that NPD pulls.
I want to one day see VGChartz become THE name in videogame industry market tracking. Open to the public & free to view. Somebody has to start somewhere.
Nobody has perfect mastery of where the market goes. Nobody...including NPD. They are ESTIMATES not EXACTS. If you don't fully trust the numbers here take numbers from all kinds of sources and see where the mean lies.
I just had to get that off my chest. I look at NPD as just another market tracker. They are not Moses with the Ten Commandments on slabs of stone.
John Lucas
Words from the Official VGChartz Idiot
WE ARE THE NATION...OF DOMINATION!
