| outlawauron said: Wait, that's how you were interpreting your chart? The only ones that matter for this discussion are the high point (MHP3rd), MH4, and MH4G. Decreasing sales over the past two iterations. MH3U is just a port of the Wii game, and shouldn't be on used to prop up the slope. It shouldn't count for the same reasons why MHP3rd HD shouldn't count. |
Mountains can have multiple peaks. Ignoring all but a few data points would have led someone to say that the stock market was doing great in October 2008 because it was way above where it was 40 years prior.
This policy of disregarding all data points except the absolute highest and the most recent does not apply in any real-life situation. If you have a fever of 103 and it goes down to 101, that is progress. Your temperature is declining. Your temperature is not considered to be rising simply because it's usually 98.6, but is now 101. If you are in a car accident while going 30 mph and you are accused of having been accelerating because several minutes before the collision your car was at a complete stop at a light, you're going to call bullshit because actually you were in a 45 mph zone and you slammed on the brakes. You were decelerating at the moment of impact.
