Aquamarine said:
Please note that a lot of NPD sales "adjustments" over the years have actually come from people who were NOT part of The NPD Group, but instead were just regular people who thought that NPD was inaccurate so they have to "fix" their numbers. That's why I think presenting the original data as-is will always be relevant. Old sales data is a relic and it's important to have a window into how people back in the day experienced it. The problem with sales data on the Internet is that it gets passed through so many hands such that when the original source is a bit questionable, misinformation can spread for decades and nobody is really there to correct it. |
I seem to remember NPD adjusting data themselves in the past as well?
Even in the last generation as well?
Am I mis-remembering here?
I know that some people adjust NPD data themselves but that wasn't what I was talking about in the last post. Some old NPD data is quite unreliable (From the early 90's) as they didn't have the capibility to track the entire market. (Again, please correct me if I'm wrong).
But I agree, always good to see original sell through data from the time it was released.
Thanks again for all you do and your knowledge on the subject, Aqua.
