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Ryng_Tolu said:
...No one cares about this news...?...for real... ok?

NPD communications chief David Riley commented, "This is a closed service, the detailed data is only available to participants so if you're a non-participating publisher you cannot see the data. The fact that we're allowed to go out with something for the media is a huge step in the right direction. I think as the service matures and as the publishers get used to it and we get more on board, we have more history, we do some benchmarking, we can provide that, but what we wanted to do for multiple reasons, including appeasing the publishers was to combine full-game physical with full-game digital, keep away from the DLC, keep PC games separate because that's a whole different ball of wax. It's not comprehensive, but it's the most comprehensive, we're the first in the market to track this and we're sort of very cautious."

Presumably that means anyone who isn't from EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Capcom, Square Enix, Take-Two, Deep Silver or Warner Bros can't see the data. In that case I won't be able to receive any digital data (I'm part of JPMorgan Chase), and neither would Creamsugar or CosmicQueso, most likely. John Harker could give us some data, but he rarely ever posts.

 

If it doesn't mean anything for leaks, there's no reason to care about it.