Official Xenoblade thread- Opinions, thoughts and questions inside! Can it hit 1mil in sales next year? Sequel coming for Wii U???

[Mr.Ashtear]

 

noname2200 said:
The NPD releases a top 50? I thought they just listed the Top Ten all SKU Chart, and occasionally the individual SKU chart.

what I meant by "not tracked" is this: (quoted from neogaf)

 

Xenoblade is included in the numbers, but the title is suppressed in the data. All retailer exclusives get lumped into a single surpressed number.

 

if you want a clearer explanation:

 

Originally Posted by jvm: 

I don't know if it's been discussed yet, but here is what's probably going on with the NPD/GameStop/Xenoblade situation...

Short version: Retailer-specific information is verboten. It was excluded from the public release. It is almost certainly included in data that subscribers get.

Longer version: One thing that the NPD Group tries to avoid is giving out any retailer-specific information. I believe that this may be part of their agreement with the retailers with which they have data-sharing deals. This protects retailers from knowing too much about each other, if I understand correctly.

I've been told that this is why Wal-mart was always a sore spot. They are 25% of the market, so they felt that the NPD Group's reports were giving away information about their business. (Not sure how that's going to be different now. They still aren't integrating any data from their agreement with Wal-mart yet.)

Since Xenoblade was a retailer exclusive, its sales would give away information about a specific retailer, so it can't be included in the public report. It is almost certainly in the subscriber data.