sinha said:
Do you mean that Microsoft's statement based on retail estimes would be nowhere near accurate or that the weekly estimations from vgchartz based on ioi's sources would be nowhere near accurate? Are you really saying Microsoft's numbers are less accurate than vgchartz?
Because in response to that I must quote ioi, specifically about Black Friday sales: "Wow, we screwed up bigtime this week !!
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And regarding that last statement, I must mention that I made exactly that point, about vgchartz increasing its data sources, in this earlier thread. Really it should be obvious to anyone who understands basic statistics (sample size, selection bias / sample bias)...
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