| ethomaz said: Your only mistake is there is no way Destiny had a 6 million unique players in the first week because it sold ~4 milion... so the first week I can say the avg. players per day was below 3 million... and I don't believe it even reached 6 million unique players in one day... there is no sales enough for that. |
Nah, its not a mistake because it wasn't meant to be a 1:1 example. I am just showing you that you can make averages say anything. If you want I can use more nominal numbers but my point was to just show that averages are meaningless in this scenario.
Let's take the openning day sales of Destiny as ~5 million (numbers on this site for openning week):
(5*14+1*14)/28 = 3.0
Not hard to get this number to 3.2 by skewing one more day over. This is why averages are dumb. 
There could literally be 0 players today and the average would still be in the millions.
