| leedlelee said: Does Amazon really mean anything in Japan??? I only ask because it is my understanding that a lot of these international (non-Japanese) retailers aren't preferred by many in Japan... For example, you can have one of the top selling songs on iTunes Japan and not even have your song chart... |
Fact is until we get the proper numbers on a Wednesday (which are themselves estimates, albeit fairly good ones) are we can do is scratch around in the dark. However, in my opinion Amazon is perhaps the least useful of all the early indicators of popularity. Why that is I don't know, but its rankings are often very different to what we see in MC/Famitsu.
COMG! is better but still flawed, to use it with any degree of accuracy you have to consider past information which may not always be available and interpret it accordingly and even then it's far from an exact science. Also I see lots of people using Amazon when other indicators show particular games they like not doing very well but when Amazon does, which is obviously a flawed basis on which to make any predictions
Tsutaya is also better, but again it can often be wrong (It's usually there or there abouts, but sometimes it's way off)
