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

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teknohick said:

this isn't good news for anyone in the community. its to some companies interests that users don't know exact/specific sales data. its just more information blinded to the public.

npd going private isn't going to give vgchartz any more "legitimacy" than it already has. the site is what it is. its a fan/enthusiast video game sales site. i enjoy this site; its been fairly on target but the numbers are estimates; they have never been exact. sometimes they've been way off.

if anything this harms vgchartz. now its the sole estimate/publisher of numbers and in the end no one really has anything to check against to see how close/near or intact the numbers are. it'll end up causing a lot of trouble for whatever discussion the site has regarding sales. fan boys and trolls can just run that more wild and cause the discussion to become pointless to participate in. whos really to say what numbers are wrong or right? especially when it comes to software which will be harder to track. being off thousands of units IS a big deal. numbers go on in time and you end up getting very wrong results.

if this stays, you'll see even more discussion of vgchartz within the community and that you cant trust or use it as a sole source. thats not a conversation that helps this site.

Yes, NPD going private isn't good for anyone, and no it doesn't make VGChartz legit. I really don't know why GAF thinks this is so big for VGC. As soon as I saw the news I was dissapointed for loss of figures, not happy for VGC.

However, to suggest that NPD isn't providing estimates also is wrong. To say that we need to check VGC against NPD is no more valid than to say that we need to check NPD against VGC. Either way, VGC does check their numbers against financial reports and any other source of valid numbers (for example, estimates by the likes of NPD or press releases by publishers).

No, fanboys can't make up crap, because we know that VGC is accurate enough for our discussions. This argument has been posed over at NeoGAF but they don't accept VGC numbers at all, VGC members should accept VGC numbers. If you are on this website and don't accept that VGC is accurate enough that you are going to disregard the numbers, then why did you start posting here in the first place? To claim that software will take this huge hit just because the US top 10 are slightly missing (we will still get rank and some numbers in reports) is sorta silly.