Does anyone know why the news media does not reproduce a summary of the sales figures each month? It seems very odd to me.
By comparison, the Nielsen TV ratings are routinely (daily even!) reproduced in summary by various news outlets and blogs. That means that even if you do not technically subscribe to Nielsen's research, you can get a sense of some of the basic data just by perusing the industry blogs. You can see, for example, that The Walking Dead has faced ratings declines this season.
When it comes to the video games data, none of the sites (not even Gamespot or IGN) publish anything as far as I can tell. I have to assume they know, along with thousands of other people, how well Nintendo did last month. Why isn't this reported?
I don't mean to diminish the value of the data. Nielsen's work is phenomenal and absolutely worth the subscription, and I imagine it is also true of NPD. My only point is that there is an interest to the general public and perhaps for that reason it is acceptable for a summary to appear in the broader media under "fair use."
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