Aquamarine on 22 July 2016
| Shadow1980 said: Media Create ought to open a U.S. branch to track sales. Won't ever happen, but it's nice to dream. |
Did you know that once upon a time there was actually a competitor to NPD for USA video game sales? It was called PC Data.
PC Data forced NPD to actually release sales data weekly and be a lot more competitive for subscribers.
Here's an example:
April 1996 Top 20 Entertainment PC Titles (USA Sell-through from PC Data, not NPD):
Full Year 1996 Top 20 Entertainment PC Titles (USA Sell-through from PC Data, not NPD):
They also did the console industry as well:
USA Hardware Market according to PC Data, not NPD:
Wanna know why PC Data stopped releasing USA data?
Well...
........NPD bought them in March 2001 so they could have a monopoly on USA sales data.
Such a shame.
