Farsala on 13 February 2016
| Boskabo said: People trying to get George to post here seem misguided. This is a site that incorporates NPD numbers directly into its own pretend numbers, and we've seen numerous outlets take these numbers as belonging to a proper research group. VGC is making money and notoriety (which leads to traffic) through these numbers, which is strongly against NPD policy and quite probably illegal. The NPD can't be seen to indulge such a site. As such, a twitter account seem like a decent option. NPD could also give informal PR bits to outlets long after the initial data is released. The problem is that as the reach of those message increases so does the need to clear the data released with proper channels. The rumour was that hardware data ceased being released at Sony's request, so it'd be odd Muclair's data releases wouldn't be discouraged or outright forbidden by privies, either in the present or future. |
1:The US numbers would get to VGchartz anyways.
2: ioi probably has NPD himself
3: NPD only does US, Canada, and Australia publically it seems, and 20 countrys in total to people who get NPD. While VGC is worldwide, pretty much every country.
The only thing NPD wouldn't want to do it is to simply save face. So while your reasons make sense, I don't think they are as sound.
