[NPD]: No more monthly hardware numbers
Posted: 2007-11-06 10:48am
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What fucking bullshit. To quote the best post in the GAF meltdown thread.:Beginning with the October sales data, which is due later this month, NPD is going to cut way back on what they share on a monthly basis with their non-paying customers, i.e. media.
What does this mean?
For starters, no more hardware sales data. (Can you taste the bitter tears streaming from various forums and message boards?) 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.
Stumpokapow wrote:Dear NPD:
Music: Top 100 albums in Canada, Top 100 songs in the US, Top 200 albums in the US
Movies: Full boxoffice chart, $ value included, Top rental chart, weekly, $ value included, Top DVD sales
Books: We get bare minimum top 10 unit sales numbers (no rounding) every week, although there are no reliable archives.
Internet: Alexa; Most Popular Sites, Largest message boards online
TV: Daily numbers; several sets, actually. We get fast nationals, real nationals, +7 numbers that take TiVo into account.
Video games: Media Create, Famitsu are both available freely every week. Famitsu publishes half-year and year-end top 500s. No unit rounding.
Justify yourselves.