Normally, today would be the day when the NPD would release its data, both Hardware and Software. When the NPD released its data, the respective fanboy who hardware is number 1 would get bragging rights over the others. Lately, it has been Microsoft, but most of the time it's Nintendo.
But it seems that starting this month, the NPD may no longer show the public the sales numbers of its hardware and software, period.
NPD's monthly public report on video game software and hardware sales in the US will change this month. The most noticeable alteration will be the removal of hardware and software unit sales. The company will still provide a monthly list of the top ten selling "physical purchases" (i.e. brick-and-mortar retail) on consoles, but by title and not by individual platform SKUs -- meaning multi-platorm games will be clumped in one sum. The company will also continue to provide notes from its analyst, which may contain software sales figures. If this format seems familiar... congratulations, you're a reader of the weekly UK Chart-Track sales data.
That alone is gonna bring down fanboys left and right. How are we to prove our doucheness if we don't have any proof that our system is doing better? Or which version of a multiplatform game is selling better?
Folks. It's pretty obvious.
THE INDUSTRY IS OUT TO GET YOUR FANBOYISM! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
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Works Cited:
Joystiq
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