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

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SWORDF1SH said:

zorg1000 said:

Well the thing is we dont know if Amazon represents a similar percentage of overall hardware, software & accessories.

What i mean is that Amazon could make up 10% of software sales in the US but only 5% for hardware and a whopping 20% for accessories which makes it even harder to predict sales based on what is ranking near it.

 

 

Basically overall we should just continue to do what we have been doing and just use Amazon to predict rankings, not actual sales.

Like I said, we need some close months. Before the Switch I believed the bias was in favour of PS4. Now I believe the bias is in favour of the Switch then PS4 then Xbox One. The trouble is, the console I think has the most bias as won the majority of NPDs. This is why Amazon could be accurate. We might see the theory testes GoW month where both consoles should be close to each other in the charts. 

amazon seems to be used more by the hardcore market, they prefer Japanese games/consoles, and since ps4 has been winning most  npd, amazon prediction looks better then it is, as for switch vs ps4 on amazon, they have been to close, so amazon picking a winner was just pure luck.