September 2015 NPD Thread! Hardware estimates and software numbers up!

[binary solo]

Teeqoz said:

binary solo said:

Perhaps NPD has asked the companies not to mention percentages because it makes it too easy to work out a fairly accurate actual sales number, and NPD is all about protecting its data. If we can't work out xb one sales from the YoY % then the creamsugar pie chart won't be of any value. I guess we'll see if that theory holds true once some independent reports come out.

We'll see if Nintendo give us any percentages. They normally do.

 

Besides, I hoestly think NPD are more interested in protecting software data than hardware data. Hardware is just three data points a month, software is god knows how many (NPD obviously tracks sales further down than the top 10 we get).

ardware data. 

They still seem to come download hard on hardware leaders. I think NPD should release hardware numbers giving a ball park range. Like below 50k, above 50K above 100K, above 200K and so on. That way most people would be ok with that level of information and it is information NPD puts out which does not devalue the data package people are paying for.