| cpg716 said: GameStop CEO says the $399 Xbox One is flying off the shelves. but his word should be taken with a grain of salt. Anyway.. Amazon never a good indicator of anything... As I have said.. games that sit in their top 3 spots for a month do NOT even show up in the top ten of ACTUAL NPD sales.. |
I think the only thing that can give false readings is when they put things on sale. Say if 100 people bought the game "Mega Awesome FPS", and 200 people bought the game "Super Epic Adventure 2". Now if Amazon has 25% of all sales that would mean 25 bought MAFPS and 50 SEA2 from Amazon. But say if they sold MAFPS $10 lower than all other stores then the percentage of all sales would go up, lets say it went up to 55%. So they would of sold 55 games but since MAFPS is still sold the same price as everywhere else it still only sold 25%, 50 games.
So that would mean that even though SEA2 sold more in all stores in total, MAFPS would show higher on Amazon.
Having said that, if you comparing products being sold at RRP or with similar discounts, then it should be more of a fair comparison.
