January 2018 NPD Thread! Switch #1

[Nuvendil]

Kerotan said: 

Nuvendil said:
For those wondering how the PS4 could be higher in revenue but lower in sales, it had bundles that drove the price up, the PS4 Pro is higher than the Switch, the PS4 Pro MHW bundle is $450. All that adds to the revenue. Switch had only 2 skus on the market priced at $300.

Also, no, MHW and DBFZ are not major system sellers. They were mild ones. But that was more than the Switch had. None.

And no one is saying PS4 numbers are unimpressive. Just that the Switch is doing well, so let's not kick up a fuss over this.

Honestly, after all the "will Amazon's accuracy hold?! IS IT RELIABLE?!" drama build up these past several days, this is quite the anticlimax. Can't wait to do it all over again next month.

The point about amazon is it suggeeted a much bigger win for Switch. Its switch biased for sure.

Amazon has ALWAYS only ever been relaible at predicting ranks NOT SALES NUMBERS.  This has been accepted for years yet in recent months a revisionist, false narrative of it being used to predict numbers and ratios has been drummed up - borderline invented from whole cloth - by people who, for whatever pitiful reason, want to discredit the practice of tracking them.  And so I will say again - and again and again and again if necessary - the Amazon charts predict the end month sales RANKINGS not numbers nor the gap. 

End of story. 

Move. On.