July 2017 NPD Thread! Switch #1

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librarian13579 said:

CosmicSex said:
As a consumer, I don't like the secret nature of hiding sales. Japan has released numbers for years and no one blew up. Here it seems to protectionist. After all, as consumers, we are the ones generating this information. It is ours literally.

Thank big 3rd-party publishers and certain "exclusively-video-game" retailers for basically forcing NPD to play the bad guy by incessantly purging all of the  leakers.

Maybe a compromise could be reached with like a months delay in releasing  the monthly data for public consumption, that way they still have control over the latest data and by the time that data is  released to the public, NPD and their clients should have their focus on  the latest data, and if that's not enough to appease them even more, they could limit it to a select number of sites, that way it's available to those with a real interest in the sales data without being open to widespread public release.