NPD to limit sales data released to non-paying customers

Posted Nov 6, 2007 at 9:38AM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: News Tags: Microsoft, New York, Newsweek, NPD, Sony

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On the latest edition of his Monday Morning Quarterback feature, Newsweek's N'Gai Croal revealed that the New York-based NPD Group will no longer release monthly hardware sales data to their non-paying customers, i.e. the media.

Croal also revealed that software sales figures for only the top five SKUs will be released instead of the usual top ten. This practice will start with the sales data for October, which is due to come out later this month. The last data released by NPD was for sales in September.

Armchair analysts won't be left without any figures at all, though. Hardware and software sales data will still be released on a quarterly and annual basis, so this pullback may only be temporary. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are still free to release their own hardware sales data, of course.

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