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DD_Bwest on 30 November 2014
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vivster said:
Demesne said:
vivster said:

Do I really have to do this? No I don't. Look it up yourself.

Amazon monthly ratings predicted the correct winner of each month since last November. Even the month where X1 won. 12 correct samples in a row is not enough for you?

Not denying that, just pointing out the sales ratio on PS4 "win" months were not inline with amazon rankings.

While for Nov Its X1 PS4 PS4 X1 PS4 X1 on the rankings.  To an open logical mind amazon rankings really dont say much on who will get the ndp "win" for Nov.  its no where near as cut and dry as it was for other months.  

To put it bluntly, based of Amazon Nov rankings we know shit all who will "win" november.  

No one gives a shit about exact ratios. It's about trends. Amazon is showing the trends. Amazon has been showing the trends correctly for a year.

Yes, this time around there are multiple bundles which makes it more wonky but as a general rule(with any sales charts) we can assume that the higher the rankings, the bigger the absolute difference between them. So far we have X1 at #3 and PS4 at #17 and #20. It's not a stretch to assume that even both PS4s combined will not easily match the X1 on #3.

you might wanna hold off on the champagne about 24 hours just to be sure,  amazon is terribly inconsistent with how far behind the days lag, ive seen it take anywhere from 2 days to 5 days for it to post new results.  its easier to notice at the beginning of the month as you wait for any sales for that months charts to show up.   we have also only seen the gta bundle on the chart for a day.  Now they could have updated it with both thursdays numbers and fridays numbers, or thursdays sales werent enough to place it in the top 100 weekly( but that would be surprising)but there is also a chance the update was only thursdays numbers, leaving all of yesterday and today to be added.   Thats not to say it will change, your just a bit premature



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