VGChartz Polls and Fanboyism

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senseinobaka said:
I do think the OP is making assumptions based on the data shown. Simply put, there was no way to predict that Wii would have such a stellar year. The polling data for Wii should be lower than actual performence since at the time the pollees would have been making a safe and realistic choice. Same for the 360, the success of the price drop and the lack of competition from sony could not have been predicted in Jan and thus the responses should skew lower. As for the PS3, stagnation was expected and stagnation was recieved, so the poll should relfect that assumption in Jan.

Also, they only way to really prove a PS3 fanboy bias would be difficult. My approach would require knowing which system each voter prefers then finding a median for the Wii+360 voters. Then I would find the median of the PS3 voters and compare the SD difference to the Wii+360 (if it's great than X, probably 3, then PS3 voters can be considered biased). But I doubt that data is even almost available.

Actually it was pretty realistic to expect around 45 million Wiis sold (I know I did).

- Sales were 20 million at the end of 2007

- production was at 1.8 million per month (or 21.6 million per year).

This means that even if Nintendo hadn't increased production, the Wii should be at almost 42 million by the end of the year... From there to 45 million is just a small production increase which was sure to happen.