What you say is plausible, although these things (about sales data being public or not) would benefit both Microsoft and Nintendo as well. And even if one or several of system does well right now, it could be benefitial in the long run, just in case if future systems should underperform in terms of sales. Personally, i think its more likely that Media Create wants to offer their numbers exclusively to those who pay, not that they were pressured to stop releasing some of the number to the public for free. And as Herp Alpert mentioned, most 3rd party publishers probably have access to sales data, or could easily have it if they want, so i dont think this is much of an issue for them. Generally speaking, i guess you cant rule it out 100%, i just feel that there isnt enough evidence to say anything more concrete about it. It shall be interesting to see what Famitsu and Dengeki does going forward at least :)
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