Amazon US October monthly bestsellers and general Amazon based discussion

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GribbleGrunger said:

This is unbelievable. You guys are making Amazon pointless. Amazon has now been right every single time, including April, because of 'a', 'b' and 'c'. Why is Amazon known to have been wrong once? You people are overcomplicating what was a very simple concept.

If the PS4 is ahead of the XB1 in the monthlies and the XB1 wins then Amazon will have been wrong for the second time. If the PS4 is ahead of the XB1 in the monthlies and the PS4 wins then Amazon will have been right yet again. This is how it's always been judged and I haven't got a clue why some people now want to complicate this simple fact.

Whichever console leads the Amazon chart is seen as the winner of the month.

The Amazon rankings only show how products sell relative to each other, not how much they actually sell. For instance, one PS4 SKU is ranked #10 and two XBO SKUs are ranked #20 and #40. It appears that the PS4 is selling more since it is the highest ranked SKU, but we don't know how large of a difference there is between each SKU. The PS4 could have sold 100 units with the XBO SKUs selling 40 and 20 units. However, what if the the XBO SKUs sold 80 and 40 units?