| ioi said: NPD didn't track the PS3 black friday bundles - they were Sony hardware bundles much like the Pure / Lego Batman 360 bundles or Wii Sports bundles - the software in those isn't counted in the software totals from NPD. Also, I'm not sure where you guys are getting these figures from. As of Nov 28th we have: Punch-Out - 578k Americas (503k US) - looks fine Infamous (minus BF bundle) - 588k Americas (511k US) - looks fine Valkyria Chronicles - 315k Americas (275k US) - looks high but I'm happy with our figures Fire Emblems - all around 200k again so don't really see any issues here. The only one that would raise any concern is VC I guess, but even in that case I'm not worried by our data. It has seen a lot of price cuts and has been selling especially well at Walmart in recent weeks for example so as ever I'm a little sceptical as to how well NPD is able to track some of this stuff. |
Well lets be honest, for you tracking guys in general stuff that low is going to be hard to track.
As the numbers get lower the margin of error is going to get higher since there is a much eaiser chance for sales to be less evenly distributed.
Plus each copy off is just worth so much more % wise.
Anything ~300,000 or less must be a real pain in the ass to track.
