If you are the smaller company, with only one focus and you take what you are best at out of the public eye, how does this help you?
The name Media Create meant something around here. Letting 2 bigger companies take your spot does not seem like the way to go. I would be hoping Famitsu and Degeki drop out too if I were Media Create. This is like Atari and Sega taking a back seat when they had so much mindshare in the industry. Oh they are still around in name but not as huge in the minds of fans.
Why do that to your brand?
I don't think you're allowed to post the numbers if you got them though, if it were that simple we would see NPD numbers popping up everywhere. MC's digital ninjas will catch you if you post their numbers come april and will rip you apart :(Time to make a Kickstarter to afford an era-dedicated MC subscription
This image looks as fake as their sales numbers, congrats on the choice xD
Which other entertainment industries except for the movie box office? Or any other industry for that matter.
Companies want to control 'the message' that goes publicly. It's in the nature of people actually, to show the positives and hide the negatives.
Also, these charts have value and are being made by people that should get paid for their work.
So maybe they'll show less publicly so they can sell more. (edit: or more likely, the industry is putting pressure on them)
Time to make a Kickstarter to afford an era-dedicated MC subscription
That's interesting. Surely that makes media creates data barely worth paying for when you have 2 other companies providing the same service for free.
Where do I sign up? I heard the NPD predicting tool is best in the industry.
Conspiracy theory, they're hiding numbers for next FY because it's going to be even more Nintendoland until PS5.Of course they stop now.
Looked like it was going to be a fun year with all these switch titles
Even VGChartz has given up for software. They are no longer "reporting" numbers (as of Dec 2018) and are planning to just archive official shipment/sales data released by publishers going forward.
People are talking about Dengeki, but I'm guessing that other trackers will follow suit? This is about getting paid for that information right?
Man...something dies in me. OK...not that bad..but every wednesday i woke up, and i was like..."yeah, let's check out the media create numbers".
Oh man:(
Thanks man, that put a smile on my face;)
so it's just like NPD then?I think you missed this part:
Without numbers, first place can be 1 million, 200k, 100k, 20k, 10k, whatever. Knowing the top 10 would be almost meaningless (I am assuming Famitsu and co will follow suite).
Man what is it with videogames and hiding costs and results as much as possible
Yeah but compare this to cinema, where we can easily see the budget of a film and how much it makes.They run a bussiness that collects data from Japanese retailers on a weekly basis, and they want money to pay their employees for doing that job. They don't hide the info for the people who pay.
If you want public non-hidden info, there's the quarterly reports from the game companies.
For NPD we have some leaks, and hints at least for the top sellers...
They won't be long following. End of an era.Expectation: NPD becomes more like Media Create.
Reality: Media Create becomes more like NPD.
At least we still have Famitsu and Dengeki.
I imagine it's the trade off between ad revenue and subscription revenue. Given I always get Media Create info from here rather than the site itself, it is kind of hard to blame them since i"m not contributing to their bottom line. But Famitsu is more general, so they may have more benefit to staying open.Is there a reason why the other 2 trackers would follow suit? I don't see the benefits.
Is there a reason why the other 2 trackers would follow suit? I don't see the benefits.