ironmanDX said:
You're right about that. It's still a very vague system of just rankings with no hard numbers. A ranking system which, if you can confirm, has absoloutly no bearing on the estimation methodology of this very site. Still absolutely no point in dismissing anecdotal evidence as "rubbish" in the first place. |
There is a good reason to dismiss anecdotal evidence because that is only a single person's account at a specific period of time. An anecdote in the context of how much a console is selling is largely useless because that person is only making a single observation at a single store of one major retailer at X:XX AM/PM. You also have to take into account a lot of variables such as demographics, urban vs rural, whether that retailer is offering a unique deal, etc. The last point is especially true considering that person's anecdote came from Target, which offers an XB1S deal that no other retailers are offering.
This is nowhere near the same as judging sales from Amazon's rankings because its rankings are directly based on its sales data. There are certainly flaws as the rankings are relative and do not say anything about the actual number of sales. However, considering its record at predicting the NPD winner, saying that it has absolutely no bearing is an inaccurate conclusion.
