March 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

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Blood_Tears said:

Sprash said:

I ask myself everytime what numbers are the most likely to be correct, can you provide a link with a clear statement that media create is superior? would be great.

When looking at their Wiki you get

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Create

 

Media Create competes with Enterbrain's Famitsu and MediaWorks' Dengeki PlayStation in the market for providing Japanese game sales data. Because there are three different tracking firms, there will always be three different sales numbers for any software and hardware title. Which company to trust is a matter of debate, as none of the three major trackers are ever 100% accurate and whoever tracks the highest amount of sales for a given title fluctuates.

Nintendo cites Media Create sales data during its conferences and presentations.^[2]

VGC is most accurate because it averages the 3 for its weekly Japan numbers, therefore VGC obtains sales data from more sources over all than any of the 3 individually.