
David Riley, NPD senior manager is sending belittling emails to VG Chartz.
"K.O.,
I'm looking at prelims for the month and am happy to see that you're way off the NPD estimations for the month. I would expect you not to change your "article" (because god knows I'm keeping a copy of your current post), and to provide your readers with the NPD's actuals vs. your current estimations.
Keep on working on that fantastic formula of yours. At this rate, I think you'll
get there sometime before 2030."
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Lol, I don't even know why people read VG Charts. Its not reliable and that is the reason it has been banned from more than one forum and site. (GAF)
And NPD is reliable? They don't even account for 40% of retail which is WalMart.
But that doesn't excuse the emails.
NPD are complete asses. Bullying another site and viewing them as competition.
NPD must view VGC as competition to sling so much mud over this.
thats why vgchartz is in beta ?