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NPD Will No Longer Publicly Provide Games Hardware Sales Data
Newsweek's LevelUp blog has the big news of the day: the monthly releases of NPD sales information for the games industry have (for the time being) come to an end. N'Gai Croal and Geoff Keighly have a lengthy discussion about the withdrawal of that information from a reliable source. They also discuss the huge number of AAA games releasing this month, and which of those are likely to come out on top. N'Gai also notes that, as far as the NPD was concerned, we should have seen this coming. "NPD Group director David Riley contacted us with a statement to clarify his company's new position, which reads: At this time last year, it was made very clear that NPD will provide media with hardware sales figures, but that it would only be temporary. As you may recall, we never provided these numbers until Nov.'06, the first month when all three new consoles were on the market. It's been a year, so it's time to pull back. It's better to pull back and leave it up to our clients to release their numbers. Or, if manufacturers tell us it's okay to release their hardware sales numbers, then we'll go back to providing them, but that shouldn't be our call."
You seriously used VGChartz for your example? You can go in to the game ranking page and see where the bias on that site lies. Not to mention, the site uses the ostentatious Z for an S. I can't wait for the "Wii-tail Report." I'm sure they have something childish like that planned with all the corn-balling on that site.
That site and nexgenwars rely on guesses. They both posted Microsoft's 10 million sales number on trust, but they both degrade and berate anyone that posts Sony published numbers. Those sites are troll magnets and ad whores.
(Sorry, I hate when people use numbers from those sites as truth, good or bad. It's like quoting Wikipedia.)
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.