| marc said: Your argument was covered as part of another reply earlier. Please re-read the post and improve your english comprehension. Maybe you should cut them all and paste them into word so you can see them all at once and tie everything together. Regarding your second innane comment. Watch stock analysts and public news releases from companies and you see the public BS engine 1st hand every day on any channel or website that covers the market. "Noticing it" means nothing if there is no punishment to the behavior. But even that is beside the fact because as far as I know, there are no other professional companies collecting retail game sales data. |
Thanks for insulting my intelligence, but I understand why you'd get pissed of with me paraphrasing you. And truth is, she probably deserves it too, because with or without copy-pasting, I still don't see where my argument was covered.
I still don't think any company blindly pays millions to buy data from NPD without checking it. This includes their own data, which is obviously easier to check, and competitors data. They can do what ioi does after all - once in a while check a small sample of retailers and see how their competitors are doing; or they can hire a third company to do that. Heck, they can even check VGChartz for cryin' out loud! And they'll do this, especially if they suspect their numbers, or competitor numbers, aren't right, which they will if they're wildly off.
Our hole point is that, unless NPD is slowly bolstering numbers for like 5-10%, something that may never add up for anything significant, and only for a couple of the hundreds, maybe thousands, of products it tracks - they will get caught, eventually.
