*Sound Of Rain said:
I never understood it so please explain...who says NPD is right? Just asking as I never knew why we always go by them. |
Well I still believe they are more accurate because.
- They have more experience
- They have more data
- They have more relationships
- They are less biased
This isnt a slam against VGC. VGC is getting better and better data and more experience, but I do not believe at this time that VGC is as accurate.
So also dug up a little past data. In 2008 when Wii sold 11,436,314 consoles in the Americas according to VGC. In Canada NPD reported that of the 1.9 million consoles sold in Canada 44.1% (838K) were Wii sales. So that means that for in Americas in 2008 7.5% of the Wii sales came from Canada. So if the ratio holds up in 2010 7.5% of the aproximately 9.7M (last week estimated at 500K) sold in Canada is 727K. That leaves about 9M between US and the rest of the the Americas.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
