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apujanata on 10 July 2008
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Neos said:
apujanata said:
Thanks for the reply. However, NPD data are DEFINITELY not the cause of the changed data. The date in question is between Jun 21 till July 1. There are no new NPD data released during those dates, and the week in question are all new (week 3 for Wii Fit is up to 7 Jun, while week 5 for Wii Fit is up to 21 Jun), so there should no influence from NPD May nor NPD June (which hasn't been released yet as of now).

 

Yes you're right, NPD didn't have a influence on those numbers. But like I said, it's most likely ioi received new data from his retailers.

Your answer raised another question. Let's focus on Week 3 data, for sales up to 7 June. As you can see :

"Week 3 : was 51,139 on 21 June, stay same # at 26 June and 27 June, and changed into 43,139 (current #) on July 1"

The week 3 data only changed between 27 June and July 1, which mean that the data was changed about 20 days after the actual date (7 June), and 7 days or more since the first publication of the data (I first noticed it on 21 June).

How about week 4 ?

"Week 4 : was 42,397 on 21 June, changed into 98,397 on 26 June, stay same # at 27 June, and changed into 104,484 (current #) on July 1."

It cover sales data up to 14 June, and the last changes occur sometime between Jun 27 and July 1 (14 days after actual sales date, and 7 days or more since first publication of the data).

The question is : How long after the fact (after sales date, and after publication of data on VGC) that I can expect the data to became "Stable" or "not changing anymore" ?  Especially, considering that the percentage of the change can be quite drastic (like week 4, from 42K to 104K, which is more than double) ?