Amazon U.S. February bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[quickrick]

GribbleGrunger said:

quickrick said:

xbone and ps4 cater to the same audience in the US, switch is totally different. all you have to do is look at the december amazon rankings, switch destroyed the xbox family, yet it out sold it by a very little. 

Amazon has never, and will never, be representative of how 'big' or 'little' a certain console wins by. It's just an indicator of who wins and that's it. As the poster you quoted pointed out, Amazon has only been wrong 3 times and even that is debatable when you realised 2 of those times was because of preorders. This is why I added the '*' for 'Does not affect this month'. These months become unpredictable because we can't know how many console are going to be added from previous months. Other than that though, Amazon is bang on.

If I was asking for racing tips to put money on a horse and a friend of mine was this accurate, I'd start wondering if he's got insider knowledge and taking out loans in order to up my bets. 

if thats the case then you are ignoring reality, there is no way in hell amazon can predict small wins by 5-15k it was pure luck considering how big the market is.