| eyeofcore said:
Can you give me proof of NPD doing that which is unlikely since it would/could damage their credibility. Just because 60-65% market is that way does not mean rest of the market which is not tracked which is 35-40% will have same/similar results as that 60-65% of the market... VGC is making rough estimates that are likely incorrect and I don't cite them as credible source, they have a hit and miss. We will see if they were correct. Lets wait for official numbers from companies themself... |
As an example, NPD recorded 2.110m sales for the Wii through March 2007 in the United States. Nintendo shipped 2.37m to all of the Americas in the same time period. If what you are saying is true, then somehow US sales would be 3.25-3.52m. Even more really, because I believe NPD wasn't getting Walmart data back then. How could NPD numbers only represent 60-65% of US sales with numbers like these?
I don't know why you think it would damage their credibility. They don't claim to record every single transaction that occurs in the US. Their customers know their methodology. Those customers include the video game companies. Why would they use NPD numbers in PR if the real numbers were ~50% higher?
