Square2015
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Yep. I would like to continue in some form, if the mods allow. I would use rounded figures. This was the last month before the crackdown (March '95):Would be nice if someday we get this.
I remember that in the past you made Classic Sales-Age threads with monthly NPD (Square2005 was you right ?).
Maybe you can do that again. I would love to talk more about old sales and complete my knowledge because I have almost nothing on SW before 2002.
I'd feel more comfortable continuing this starting with the oldest data possible (like starting with NES era), because NPD still maintains data back to 1995 and not wanting to expose that.
It looks like GG sold 45,000 from 2001.Majesco re-released GG in 2001, there really should be GG figures for that year, there's a decent amount of these on Ebay ... they're not rare at least. Also NGP seems rather low, which may have been the case as I don't have any shipment figures for that platform, but it wasn't a stealth release, and they had decent marketing, so I'm slightly sceptical about that figure (but I can't currently disprove it).
I couldn't be more excited to hear this! I encourage anyone on GAF that is in the industry, a shareholder, or any other credential to contact the companies that were active in the video game industry during the 8-bit & 16-bit era.Well, you don't get what you don't ask for, as is said. Nintendo is a different situation, as they still produce hardware, so I guess that it could still be considered as IR relevant data. I don't think that is so much the case with Sega, but they (SoJ) have been fairly open with sharing stuff from their archives with various retro gaming publications, so let's see. Unfortunately I don't carry much weight beyond maintaining this thread, along with documenting Sega's history along with others on SegaRetro, so I don't know how much effort they're willing to go through to help out a non-journalist. Still, I think that I'll fire off some emails to the various hardware manufacturers over the weekend and see what replies I get.
Aquamarine said NCL was willing to share their older NPD data (with a shareholder) were it not for a contract they had with the NPD. So NCL appears to not have an issue with sharing the data. If NCL is willing wouldn't others also be?
If it would help I have some info on one of the NPD analysts at that time, who is often quoted in the reports during the 16-bit console war when the monthly reports were being released. I believe he is retired now. He might be willing to help, if someone has credentials and would be willing to ask him (1) who or what firms may have the NPD data from back then? and (2) how could that data be shared without harming the NPD's business today? that would be great.