Posted Nov 06, 2007 at 02:38PM by Karl B. Listed in: News Tags: Microsoft, Newsweek, Sony, NPD Group, New York, NPD
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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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   by Kingofdaberbz - 2007-11-06
 » no

this is bad news because we all know the game companies would lie oh well i just hope someone can take their place

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   by stingray_shrey - 2007-11-06
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this new layout for the site. Now everything seems so cluttered, with those thick blue title headers and everything...
I also can't see the number of comments for an article before I click on it (i like to read articles which many ppl have commented on, so I can view their opinions on it). Those boxes in which all the articles are initially in (until u click "read more") are REALLY messy and annoying (now everytime I want some news I have to click the link, and then go back to the homepage when I am done!!)
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I'm done now...



   Re: Binary - 2007-11-06
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the big blueish bar on th top is ugy.
   by shabghai360 - 2007-11-07
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IE havent used for more than five years.
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