jonhalo said:
thismeintiel said:
Ariakon said:
Hi guys, I just joined a few minutes ago.
I wouldn't be surprised if MS edged out a slight win for BF, but I'm not certain how reliable this infoscout is. Yes, they analyze 100s of ks of shopping receipts, but if you look at the actual fine print on some of their articles, only a fraction of those may actually be towards the items they're talking about.
Their analysis of 2014's Black Friday results, for example, references 180k receipts, but only 2k of those actually purchased games or consoles.
I'll quote the article: "InfoScout panelists submitted 180k+ receipts over the course of Black Friday. Of the 180k receipts submitted, 2k receipts included a games-related purchase."
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Good find. And welcome to the site.
Roronaa_chan said:
Lol..now it's "top individual purchase". Which excludes any receipt that has a console and something else (game or controller). That + the lack of a proper report for the first time (they got it out quite quickly in the years where X1 had a clear win) just reinforces my belief that PS4 did win. If X1 had won, the report would be out yesterday. |
Lol, someone should look into infoscouts background. Maybe they are like Polygon, where MS gave them $750K+. And we know MS asked for nothing in return. 
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theire 2013 and 2014 report
2013 xbox one won bf by a mile because of ps4 shortages, but lost overall november npd due to higher ps4 preoder and launch sales...
2014 xbox one won bf and total november npd by 400k
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True, they predicted the winner, but both of those black Fridays were fairly obvious (i.e. anecdotal evidence said the same thing) and we have no idea how accurate their actual numbers were.
I'm not saying they're wrong, that Gears bundle at Target was likely very tempting, but I'm not sure how accurate their numbers actually are. (Some) People seem to misread their analysis of 250,000 receipts as if every one of those purchases was going towards a game. But going by their report last year, only 2,000 of the 180,000 submitted receipts were towards games-related products. There is quite a discrepancy in the accuracy of a survey conducted between 250k consumers and 2 to 5k.
And thanks for the greetings, everyone.
