ironmanDX said:
You're the one telling people that their anecdotal evidence is rubbish here, stifling discussion in a thread based on anecdotal evidence.
Perhaps you should actually read what you copy and paste. Or is Nioh being on sale "anywhere" also somehow equally relevant? So hypocritical.. even after the fact. |
You literally cited the front page, as a counterargument, about this specific thread.
Again, this thread, as the header implies, is not about anecdotal evidence: it is literally about the Amazon sales rankings.
Those are discrete, not anecdotal. Whoever ends up in first is the leader, something that has regularly been leveraged in the NPD thread with other sources (possibly the front page, too, but I'm not sure what they use in their full spectrum analysis).
Almost every year, around this time, console fanboys post their "X console is selling like hotcakes at my Y, Z, etc." In the end, we have a TON of conflicting anecdotal evidence, and Amazon's rankings end up picking the actual leader.
My calling out the uselessness of anecdotal evidence is not me saying that people shouldn't post it, just that it is not truly indicative of anything.
