kowenicki said:
The way pachter and then source have reported this is a little lazy and probably wide of the mark. NPD couldnt afford to be seen to bowing to unreasonable outside influences - its business would be screwed overnight. Iits a non-story that people seem to want to run with to somehow explain why their console of choice got its arse kicked in NPD. |
If Pachter is correct and MS has convinced NPD to include some shipment data to distributors, with some of those units making their way out of the US so they will never actually be sold in the US, then I think its a reletively big story. It would mean MS are trying to inflate their numbers. And there is no question that MS would have outsold the PS3 and Wii in the US, it's pretty much a given. But if MS is doing this to make their own YOY seem better to investors, that's quite dishonest.
