There's some new bad news for all of the game news junkies (I'm with you, guys) out there. Newsweek's Level Up blog tells us that the NPD is going to start cutting back on the data they've normally openly shared with the non-paying public in the past.
From Level Up:
For starters, no more hardware sales data. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will of course be free to release their own sales info—and presumably leak that of their competitors, if it'll make them look good—but we will no longer receive that data from NPD. Software sales figures will only be given for the Top Five SKUs, not the Top Ten as we normally receive. We'll eventually receive hardware numbers and Top Ten software numbers, but only on a quarterly and annual basis. There are signs that this may only be a temporary pullback, but for now, this is were things stand.
Oh no! How are we going to back up our fanboyish console war arguments now? Don't tell me that we actually have to stop bickering and play these damned systems now.
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While were at it can we also stop hearing about Box office #'s and Tv ratings too? 'cause they usually just point out how stupid people are.
...unfortunately no, but hey we can dream, right?
Anyway, I agree, Sony has got to be loving this
which actually is a nazi group which nobody likes..
maybe after everyone (and not just the fanboys...everyone is prone to oogling these sale figures as gospel)can start getting back to what really matters...the games.
Another solution would be to have a bunch of gaming sites join together to purchase the NPD data.
In case you hadn't noticed, NPD is monthly, and VGchartz is weekly, so they obviously can't use the same data.
The only overlap is when VGchartz adjusts their numbers to reflect NPD, and even then, the site is rarely more than a small fraction off.