nordlead said:
It started a long time ago on this website (don't know if it originated somewhere else first). Anyways, every time you quote Amazon rankings as a representative of actual sales a baby seal gets clubbed. Think of the baby seals. The reality is looking at Amazon rankings is like looking at your local grocery store when the power gets knocked out for a couple days. Sure all sorts of commodities jump in demand, but it only represents a small and portion of the entire market. The rest of the country/world isn't experiencing the same demand and extrapolating sales from your local grocery store for the entire country/world provides erroneous results. This is often seen with Amazon when a title gets to #1, but then fails to even bring in 10k sales for the week. In short, posting pictures of baby seals is essentially saying what I said in the paragraph above without actually saying it. Now, that isn't to say you can't extract any information from Amazon rankings, but it is questionable at best. For example, Wii being #1 for a year straight would show that there is a huge demand for Wii (I don't know if this happend or not). Disgaea 3 being #1 for a day only shows that it was Amazon deal of the day and it might see a 300 unit boost. |
oh, thanks, very informative ;)
(I didnt know if had anything to do with amazon :p)
