The Offical January 2011 NPD Thread (Data in 3 Hours for Jan 3-30)

[XanderZane]

pezus said:

Darth Tigris said:

Carl2291 said:

So the 360 is actually only 20k overtracked after those recent adjustments?

Not bad

Not bad at all.  Within margin of error.  Considering NPD are still estimates as well, hopefully this brings an end to all of the ripping of the site's tracking estimates.

Of course if the PS3 is overtracked by more than 10%, does that mean we're going to have to endure 3 months of "just wait until shipment numbers"?  Please God no ...

Well, like you said, NPD numbers are estimates too.

NPD numbers are automatically undertracked because they do not include Wal-Mart and a few other highend retailers. So VGC 403K estimate is probably about right for U.S. NPD numbers in the U.S. are always undertracked and numbers in EMEA are usually overtracked by VGC.