nordlead said:
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. |
So, say Sony don't reveal their numbers next month. No website can report their numbers even if they have them (by being a paid subscriber), obviously though some people are going to leak them on a fourm. I guess we just have to hope they're honest with it ...