July 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

[Aquamarine]

iNathan said:

Aquamarine said:

NPD changed their PR strategy.

Before, on the 2nd Thursday of every month (aka. July 11th), they would release a combined Top 10 Retail game unit sales without bundles list.

Now, on the 3rd Thursday of every month (aka. July 18th), they release a combined Top 10 Retail + Digital game REVENUES without bundles list.

Public NPD PR is now completely useless because only Activision Blizzard, Capcom, Deep Silver, Electronic Arts, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment give their digital data to NPD.

So, Bethesda, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and every other publisher are not properly represented in the Top 10, so the combined NPD PR they do release dramatically favors the publishers who give data (therefore titles like Uncharted 4 and Kirby are now grossly misrepresented).

In addition, the Top 10 ranking is now sorted by Revenue instead of Units, so new titles are skewed higher in the Top 10 then they would be if you look at Unit Sales.

 

Nothing about NPD has changed. Old clients get the exact same data. But now, NPD only comments on their bizarre physical + digital charts which nobody has access to outside of the eight participating publishers. So I don't get any physical + digital data because I'm high-level at JPMorgan Chase.

Just give us hw numbers and software units and we are done here mate, we don't care about revenue BS XD no offense, we love you dude. 

 

Oh and a question, how will you consider NX? PORTABLE OR HOME CONSOLE? 

It's both....so I'll give sales for it every month if NPD still allows me to share data.