TWRoO on 28 December 2007
| iconeternal said: @ioi congrats on the 5mill, keep up the good work. I know I am new to the site, but it does seem like the industry knowledge, certinally in terms of each companies positioning, of the community here is pretty much umsurpased. How about using this to create vgchartz pradictions. Allow individuals to estimate sales for week, month, year then combine to create a community estimation. Factor in the 90% rule to discount some of the more.... 'optamistic'... estimates. It would be interesting to see how close we as a community could get. My guess would actually be rather close. This could then also be combined with individual product sales, longevity estimates, market positioning etc. Just think how nice it would be when our estimates began to gain more credability than some of the proffesionals. |
What you described pretty much sums up the prediction league that used to run... except you seem to be hinting at integrating it better with the actual numbers, which I think is an excellent idea. I think bringing back the prediction league would be nice, except we should have a wider choice of games to predict for, and there to be no obligation to do them all [so only predict the ones you feel comfortable with] And then have some way of integrating the community prediction with the sales... Possibly a table with the real sales in one column, everyones predictions in another column, and your own predictions in a third column. And the hardware predictions could be shown on ths actual sales pages too [in the same table as hardware weekly/total]
