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whatever on 22 May 2008

So does anyone have the before & after numbers from today's adjustments?

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koffieboon on 22 May 2008

Well, checking the cache of the frontpage from google it has these numbers for The Americas:

Wii: 11.27M
360: 11.79M
PS3: 4.96M

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Aj_habfan on 22 May 2008

NPD adjustements I assume.

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Sqrl on 22 May 2008

Aj_habfan said:
NPD adjustements I assume.

lol what? Why would ioi adjust for NPD when he has publicly stated he thinks their numbers for April are at odds with everything he has observed?

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BCNR34 on 22 May 2008

Sqrl said:

Aj_habfan said:
NPD adjustements I assume.

lol what? Why would ioi adjust for NPD when he has publicly stated he thinks their numbers for April are at odds with everything he has observed?

but he did, and always does....so...

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gebx on 22 May 2008

Sqrl said:

Aj_habfan said:
NPD adjustements I assume.

lol what? Why would ioi adjust for NPD when he has publicly stated he thinks their numbers for April are at odds with everything he has observed?

ioi doesn't copy NPD numbers, but he does use them as a source to fine tune his numbers

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GlingGling on 22 May 2008

gebx said:

Sqrl said:

Aj_habfan said:
NPD adjustements I assume.

lol what? Why would ioi adjust for NPD when he has publicly stated he thinks their numbers for April are at odds with everything he has observed?

ioi doesn't copy NPD numbers, but he does use them as a source to fine tune his numbers

Agreed, plus copying NPD Group numbers is illegal. :)

Edit: copying and calling ones own.

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NintendoMonopoly on 23 May 2008

Sqrl said:

Aj_habfan said:
NPD adjustements I assume.

lol what? Why would ioi adjust for NPD when he has publicly stated he thinks their numbers for April are at odds with everything he has observed?

I dunno. Maybe, because comparing your work to others and then fine tuning yours, is the smart thing to do.

Especially, when that someone else has more data to go on. Just a thought.

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Magnific0 on 23 May 2008

whatever...it stinks.

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Sqrl on 23 May 2008

NintendoMonopoly said:

Sqrl said:

Aj_habfan said:
NPD adjustements I assume.

lol what? Why would ioi adjust for NPD when he has publicly stated he thinks their numbers for April are at odds with everything he has observed?

I dunno. Maybe, because comparing your work to others and then fine tuning yours, is the smart thing to do.

Especially, when that someone else has more data to go on. Just a thought.

Adjustments are indeed a smart, I never said they weren't or even implied it. But that doesn't mean you make adjustments to your data based on something you think is wrong.

Lots of analysts have tons of data about the stock market and lose money for their clients and themselves every day because they were wrong...if you had cause to believe they were wrong about a particular investment you wouldn't invest in it even if you did use their conclusions (drawn from their data) before.

Aside from that there are a lot of sources and reasons to make adjustments to begin with, so I'm not sure why people single out NPD.

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