July 2017 NPD Thread! Switch #1

[DonFerrari]

thismeintiel said:

DonFerrari said:

Both are doing dick moves... just like manga translators and scanners, etc, complain of people putting their work in different sites... If you aren't respecting IP from someone you can't complain that your piracy is being pirated.

Well, let's not forget that NPD is the one who started being a dick first.  They freely gave out numbers for years, like Media Create still does to this day.  But, decided not to any longer.  While that most likely had to do with requests from HW manufacturers whose numbers weren't that great, that's still BS and NPD should have told them to fuck off.  Even still, we had leakers that weren't really sought after.  My guess is even though they were leaking numbers, the HW manufacturers (most likely Sony and Nintendo) didn't care if the numbers were discussed by a few geeks in forums, they just didn't want them plastered all over sites for everyone to see.  Now, we have MS selling very poorly and NPD has been encouraged to send out their goons to shut down any and all leaks.  It's really a situation that shouldn't have happened.

I certainly agree that they removing the numbers (even if just the HW, top 10 sellers SW, and size of market) was dickish, but that can't really be used as excuse to breach your contract.