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Farsala on 13 February 2016
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Boskabo said:
Farsala said:

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.

1. Doesn't matter, it still can't be encouraged by the NPD for third parties to resell their private data. If NPD was seen as engaging the VGC community in a positive way future lawsuits could be affected. Inability to retain this data as private dooms the coperation, when the numbers are fair game their analysis and predictions are easily challanged by other firms.

2. Probably not. As far as I know, practically only NPD leaked numbers and conslusions based thereon (ranking implications) are altered post-NPD, not more general information. Beside, the agreement NPD subscribers have to sign would explicitely forbid the operation of VGC in a non-compete clause and a clause forbidding the general disclosure of numbers. Breaking this would have extremely serious legal repurcussions. We've seen how fast newegg folded despite their great legal reputation/standing.

3. NPD subscriptions is available on a per-country basis.

In general I don't think the points in your post attempt to reflect the way a cooperation would be expected to operate.

@bold Not trying to argue for it.

I was "just saying" :).