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Demesne 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.


And its just as easily assumed that the sale difference at this time between 1 and 20 could be as little as 5% given the musical chairs the top seller are playing indicating small sales differences in between them.  Which mean X1 top selling console could be getting badly out sold by the next to PS4 bundles put together.   For example X1 could be doing 100k giving it the top spot while the next two PS4s did 90k each.  We just dont know what it means.  Its just guesses leanig towards what ever side you are on.  

Aka we have no clue who will win based of amazon.  

Look at Oct, PS4 PS4 X1 X1 pretty decisive to Guess a PS4 "win"  based of it.  

But Nov X1 PS4 PS4 X1 PS4 X1 does not look in any way decisive to me.