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Roronaa_chan on 28 November 2015

They'll have a specific report on gaming consoles at some point. Probably tomorrow



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OneKartVita on 28 November 2015
binary solo said:
I was skeptical about infoscout's validity last year, but they were right. So they have a good chance of being right this time around. The methodology does seem odd, and it's only a sample, not actual sales tracking. But they seem to get enough data from enough retailers to be able to make pretty reliable predictions.

Do they get data from Gamestop?


If they're right this year I guess people will start taking them seriously. 



vivster on 28 November 2015

Now I want that awesome towel!



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binary solo on 29 November 2015
OneKartVita said:
binary solo said:
I was skeptical about infoscout's validity last year, but they were right. So they have a good chance of being right this time around. The methodology does seem odd, and it's only a sample, not actual sales tracking. But they seem to get enough data from enough retailers to be able to make pretty reliable predictions.

Do they get data from Gamestop?


If they're right this year I guess people will start taking them seriously. 

It still all depends on a data source that is out of their control, so there is always a chance not many people decide to send their purchase information, which would make their information for that year unreliable. Especially for products that no one obssesses over, like did they sell more men's jeans or womens jeans? No one cares. It's only because we get NPD a few weeks later that anyone notices whether Infoscout gets BF wrong or right for consoles. And indeed NPD can't actually validate or invalidate Infoscout unless one console wins November by a big margin and Infoscout gives BF to a different console. If November is close between two consoles then noone would ever know whether infoscout is right or wrong.

Does infoscout say what proportion of total BF spend gets logged into their database? If we had that sort of information we'd have an idea of the reliability of their report.



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Soundwave on 29 November 2015

$35 dollar tablets ... wowza.



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peterdavid12345 on 29 November 2015

That's great, this would greatly help the Uncharted fanbase on the PS4.



ICStats on 02 December 2015

They posted an update showing PS4 was slightly on top overall.

http://blog.infoscout.co/games-trump-console-sales-this-black-friday/

It seems to me they tried to downplay this fact, compared to how they trumpeted Xbox One's win last year.



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