pezus said:
I don't get that logic. There is always some stock on shelves, unsold, or else nobody would be able to buy the console. WiiU is the least likely console of the big 3 to be tracked incorrectly. The primary reason being that it sells so little that the margin for error is smaller. |
Actually statistically speaking the opposite is true.
It's much easier to get within 10% of something that sells 10 Million then it is something that sells 10,000.
With smaller samples it's a lot easier for one or two stores or chains to have a huge amount of sales that throw your numbers off, or have a huge drop off due to some sort of warehousing errors or just in general a huge pattern change.
Outliers matter more and you need a much tighter formula when sales numbers are low.
Now if you mean just rank numbers sure... it's more likely a higher selling console is going to be 500K off then a lower selling one. However, it's far more likely for the lower selling console to be off if your talking a percentage of sales.
Well, assuming the higher selling console doesn't have any stock issues. Then you've got all kinds of issues because you don't know who is getting preferential stock among retailers etc.
So, Wii U is more likely to be under or over tracked copaired to say, the Xbone.
Of course it's worthing noting, under OR over.
Not just one.
