Amazon US October monthly bestsellers and general Amazon based discussion

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GribbleGrunger said:

SWORDF1SH said:

I can't agree with you GG. We have to factor in other positions. Before it was about 1 or 2 sku's because that's all that was on the market. You're making it to simple and nothing wrong with complicating it a little, it's good to try and work it out.

 

For me Amazon got April right despite a few people claiming it's wrong ( there's also people claiming the opposite). If xbox is in 10th and PS4 is in 11th &12th, I'm giving the win to PS4 because that's what the rankings suggest.

 

If you want to simplify it, fine, don't try and make others to.

It really is and was that simple. Why are people wanting to change it? Amazon has been wrong once, people on here knew it and people on Gaf knew it but now all of a sudden Amazon was never wrong because of 'a', 'b' and 'c'. We're now changing the goalposts and have taken the fun out of this thread. It's now nothing more than constant speculation without a defining result because no result is defining, just a reason to find out how to make Amazon look right when it was wrong. It was always simple and therefore 'fun':

Whoever was at the top of the monthlies was Amazon's prediction of who won the month. It's been wrong once so far (well it used to be wrong once but now we can make it right).

It was always simple because the matter was simple. It was simple because 1 or 2 bundles always dominated and not 20. That's why Amazon was right so often because the metrics were simple and whichever bundle was first won because there was not much else.

Now we have so many bundles watering down everything that it would be ludicrous to hang on to the same concept. Then it's not simple fun anymore but dumbing down for tradition's sake. To say that Amazon "predicts" X1 as the winner just because it's in first place no matter how many PS4 bundles follow is not fun. It's stubborn for the sake of being stubborn.