| BraLoD said: Damn, now we won't have more numbers? Well, the man/woman did the right thing, his/her job and personal life has to be the thing to value the most. I hope someone else can do it, but what I think will happen now is a lot of false info going over by trolls. |
She did say there was a super-secret base where she would try to continue posting leaks, which means the infor may eventually filter over to here.
We'll still know the number home 1 console for each month, and many times we'll have an idea of the gap (A console won the month with X% of home console sales...). We should also know whenever 3DS wins a month, because in such months there will be a "3DS won NPD" PR, and also a XYZ console was the highest selling home console PR.
I think ioi probably does pay for NPD data. If not it would be irresponsible of a site trying to maintain a reputation for long term data integrity. We should be able to rely in a very high degree of long term accuracy for USA and Japan hardware, leaving only Eu and RoW as the parts of the world that are largely guestimates, backed up by a small amount of data with a high margin for error.
I wish I ran a US-based gaming magazine. I would spit in the eye of NPD and offer free advertising space to all major gaming hardware retailers if they gave me nation-wide sales data on a monthly basis, including estimated national market share so that I could then publish an aggregate hardware estimate that is close to being as accurate as NPD's, and also a top 50 game sales ranking.
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