December 2016 NPD Thread! The Last Guardian and Dead Rising 4 sales up!

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Shadow1980 said:

binary solo said:

Getting a lot better? looks at most recent hardware numbers ... 26 Nov 2016!! The lag time is crazy here.

I suspect ioi is getting the NPD numbers so US numbers should be fairly accurate. But I guess he can't publish them the day after NPD comes out. Perhaps accuracy is getting better, but how do we really know? PS4 seems to be the only console that regularly gets a worldwide sell through report from an official source, so it's really the only console VGC can openly calibrate with. MS doesn't even report Xb one shipments in quarterly reports.

I mean their U.S. monthly data is getting more accurate. See this post from earlier in the thread. Even after adjustments, their numbers frequently had a decent-sized margin of error compared to NPD, but over the past three years they've been very, very close to each other, usually under 1% MoE.

As surmised, mostly because for a while now VGC posts its final US numbers for a month some time after NPD comes out for the month. So this implies VGC has an NPD source and will always ensure its numbers are within 1% or so of NPD. But can't be exact NPD numbers or that would be a non-disclosure violation by someone.