Amazon best sellers still shows the X1 selling poorly

[fastyxx]

SWORDF1SH said:

fastyxx said:
On the flipside of the "Amazon best sellers is a great guidepost" argument is that the best-selling game this year on any platform is.....

Thief Gold for Windows.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2014/videogames/ref=zg_bs_tab_t_bsar


So that squares with our preconceptions by....

Is it or had it been on sale. Like I said in another thread.... actually I'll copy and paste.

"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."

But we have no way of knowing whether the gap between say #4 and #25 is  adozen units?  50 units?  1,000 units?  10,000 units?  Are people ordering online representative of who is actually buying consoles at this moment?  Initial orders are more likely to get filled online, with bigger pre-order allotments, no driving around looking for units, etc.   But when the relatively affluent early adopters roll through, are the next wave more or less likely to buy online versus GameStop with trade-ins, for example.  (If I'm waiting for price drops and the like, am I more likely to need the extra $20 from trading in last gen games, for example? )

I'm just in the camp, that while I would think it IS indeed indicative of sales ocverall, the extent of it is unknown and silly to guess at.  Too many variables and factors.