KInect starting to sell out online!

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dtewi said:

KichiVerde said:

This site is about sales and numbers. Given the lack of numbers at this time, sales performance is best represented by how vendors are faring. So yes I would say it is worthwhile to check online retailers when related to sales speculation. That's what people do here.

I've been on this site for 3 years, so I think I have an accurate idea of what people do here.

Online retailers represent nothing. They show absolutely nothing of how the product is faring. We don't know the stock of the item in question, so it's almost pointless to speculate.

This isn't really true. Online retailers represent how well the product is moving online. The problem starts when people take those online retailers success and say it applies to the whole world/country. Titles like Disgaea 3 can easily jump to the #1 spot on amazon due to a deal of the day, while the real world performance can still really suck. Online sales generally aren't a good representation of what the rest of the world is doing but they are perfectly fine for representing the online portion of the market. So long as people understand that everything is fine.