fooflexible on 20 February 2007
gebx said: There not going to create a new system just for the 600 or so of us, just because we can't wait a couple weeks.
npd is not providing numbers for the few hundred of us that watch on as a hobby. it's for thousands of investors that watch this industry, it's for the thousands that work in this billion dollar industry to see marketing trends, this data tells publishers what games are selling, what systems are selling. And it's for the tens of thousands that work in retail the NPD group sells this data to retailers so they can stratagize sales, based on what's going on. It's a business, and in my opinion the system they have in place is rather poor. check out their site if you want to see for yourself : NPD Home site
Also I can't find it now but an industry site how a long artical also complaining that npd's releases weren't timely enough for the industry needs.
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