NPD to STOP reporting monthly hardware sales (Starting right NOW) :(

[nordlead]

Seece said:

nordlead said:

yes and no.

Anyone who pays for NPD numbers knows how many units each system sold and how much eash SKU of software sold. However, the only people who can publish NPD hardware numbers to the general public are the hardware manufacturers themselves.

So any website reporting those numbers isn't really allowed to do so?

If Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft publishers their numbers to the general public, a website is free to repeat the information.

If a website pays for NPD numbers, they are not allowed to publish Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft numbers unless Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft put them out in a press release first. It has been this way for a while, except NPD published some numbers to the public which sort of made this rule pointless.

This is how it worked the last time NPD pulled their public press release and I'm assuming it is working the same way now.