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ZenfoldorVGI on 29 February 2008
outlawauron said:
@ bigjon

I have a question. Why do accept Media Create, but not NPD? Just wondering .....

Because MC is awesome and NPD are assholes?

 

lol, that is the reason, but either way, NPD is "accepted" and is actually a pretty big deal when it hits, its not like the mods act like NPD doesn't exist, and lock NPD topic, on the contrary they actually find NPD probably more accurate because of their sample size, but sometimes NPD is off.

 

As for MC, is that a nearly 5 to 1 Wii to PS3 ratio according to MC. That first number just keeps multiplying.



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Riot Of The Blood on 29 February 2008

PS3 is dead=confirmed.



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oliist on 29 February 2008

^Not dead.Only sleeping for a while. ;)



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Stever89 on 29 February 2008
outlawauron said:
@ bigjon

I have a question. Why do accept Media Create, but not NPD? Just wondering .....

Because Media Create and Famitsu and VGChartz sometimes are off by so much it can get funny. But nobody ever brings it up. Surprisingly.

And NPD has no competetion. So by not accepting them as correct we make ourselves competition. And since we were quoted in the World Record book, we can be considered competition. That and we just can't admit we're wrong.  



darthdevidem01 on 29 February 2008

@Riot

it's in Coma..

it needs a certain bone marrow to wake up, n that bone marrow is FF13



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fkusumot on 29 February 2008

08./00. [360] Bioshock (Spike) - 17,808 / NEW
09./06. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 17,077 / 2,798,000
10./08. [NDS] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 14,932 / 236,000

This crap is sickening! AGAIN a XBox360 FPS outselling Mario/Sonic and Wii Sports.

It's so predictable now. The pablum is rife.


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DMeisterJ on 29 February 2008

Yeah, I do find it funny that people (I won't name names), are so apt to believe Media Create over NPD. Just weird to me.



Neos on 29 February 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Yeah, I do find it funny that people (I won't name names), are so apt to believe Media Create over NPD. Just weird to me.

 is he 'crazy' perhaps? ^^



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bigjon on 29 February 2008
outlawauron said:
@ bigjon

I have a question. Why do accept Media Create, but not NPD? Just wondering .....

I don't accept MC as the Final word on numbers from Japan. The reason I have faith in this weeks numbers more than usual is because 2 tracking services which have better market coverage(or at least equal) than NDP are coming up with the same numbers. I think the fact that 2 tracking services with over 60% of the market can differ by as much as 20% proves that NDP can get things wrong. I also do not know this for sure, but it is safe to assume there is no walmart esque retailer completely left out of the numbers, and to include them using purely historical methods. I have explained before why historical IS wrong(if that is indeed what they are using... what else would they use?)

 Do that answer your question outlaw?



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outlawauron on 29 February 2008

@ bigjon

I suppose. I think you were trying that based off of two tracking services are coming with similar numbers NPD is the only tracking service.

You have realize that the US is much harder to track due to huge size over Japan. Lastly, you know NPD extrapolates for Walmart just like VGC does.

@ zen

I know. VGC is really getting public recognition. Its great! I was just talking about bigjon and made no mention of mods. I remeber him doubting NPD numbers for January.



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