March 2025 Circana (NPD) Thread + Predictions

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Geralt99 said:

@trunkswd
Since the NPD's are at the end of the month and we don't get Europe sales data anymore,
Why don't you put out Europe estimates earlier in the month.

Panicradio said:

There's no European data being reported anymore? I didn't catch that.

What's the background of this?

I have absolutely no clue about how all of this is working anyhow.

All I always read is so many institutions track data for the European markets, but somehow only this & that, and only here and there ... I always find the European data to be super confusing.

Why can't there be one institution like Circana does for America, tracking all European countries, hardware and software?

XtremeBG said:

Geralt99 said:

@trunkswd
Since the NPD's are at the end of the month and we don't get Europe sales data anymore,
Why don't you put out Europe estimates earlier in the month.

I agree, and not only this month but every month, since they are up at the same time or even later with the US ones. Why the wait ?

The big UK and Europe monthly reports from GamesIndustry that provided the most data for Europe are no longer happening. That was our main source for our Europe estimates, but we still get a little bit of data. It does mean our Europe estimates aren't as accurate as before.

As far as when we will be posting the Europe estimates I like to wait for all the data we still get to come in first and to see how sales are doing year-on-year in the US before doing them. Unless the big reports return in the future I will be posting the Europe estimates after the Americas estimates.