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quickrick on 18 November 2017
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Shadow1980 said:
quickrick said:

IDK if you post resetera, but the predictions with hundreds of people that follow sales thread religiously. here was the predictions. to me i honestly expected 350k-360k range for 3 reasons, mario odyssey was the most hyped mario game since mario 64, switch stock finally being 100% every where online, and being the second highest rated game of all time according to metracritic. as for the graph you made the read i call it cute, because your graphs are all about making nintendo look good, who makes a graph just to compare first october's of consoles?

The aggregate in the prediction topic was 412k.
Just one person predicted below 300k.
Just Michael Pachter predicted 300k.
One person predicted 310k.
Some few people were in the 330k range.
Many in the 350k range.

Most were well above. 

First off, who cares what everyone else was predicting? It's absolutely irrelevant to whether or not the actual numbers are strong. Same for SMO's Metascore. A high review average does not a system-seller make. Most of the best-reviewed games ever didn't shift an appreciable amount of units at all. In fact, you've made more irrelevant points than I care to discuss, like that whole "global shipments are the only thing that matters" comment you made the other day. It's a complete non-sequitur, having nothing to do with the subject of whether it's appropriate to align two systems by launch month if one launches in November and the other in March.

Second, if you're going to give me a hard time and impugn my character by accusing me of pro-Nintendo bias and insinuating that I'm deliberately cherry-picking data to "make Nintendo look good," then we're done. I'm under no obligation to put up with your crap. If you must know, I've been doing charts like that one since at least February 2016, and I started doing that particular style because the all-months chart I had been using got to look like a tangled mess after so many data points were added (a line graph covering 26 months and nine systems isn't going to be easy to make presentable and readable). It had nothing to do with making any system look good or otherwise trying to manipulate the data to provide a favorable image of any system. All of my charts (and I have a lot of them) have always been about presenting the data in an easily-digestible manner to illustrate trends, relative performances, the effects of software and price cuts, and other points of interest in the sales data, from the basic to in-depth.

So, you have two options: Either A) apologize for your insinuations about my intentions, or B) don't bother replying to me again, because you'll be wasting your time.

well i apologize then. it just hard to believe how you ignore that launching during the holidays in not a real factor, with all that data i provided. 

Last edited by quickrick - on 18 November 2017