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Kerotan on 22 February 2018
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Nuvendil said:
Kerotan said:

In reality this issue arose from the fact people were claiming switch would win npd by big margins because of amazon data. People rightfully pointed out how it's Switch biased so that's not the case. Ironically your post was revisionist regsrding the root cause of this. 

There have always been people throwing guesses out.  No one made an issue of it until recently.  And no one ever used that to try and undermine the threads.  I'll have you know Amazon has incorrectly said PS4 would win 5 times since 2013 but no one ever lost their crap and said Amazon was unreliable and shouldn't be trusted because of Sony bias. Because Amazon isn't used for that.  If people make ill advised guesses, that's fine.  The revisionism comes in with people implying that Amazon was once a reliable predictor of sales and gaps but now isn't because of dat dastardly Switch bias.

Also, the "bias" is simple to understand.  Switch has 2 SKUs.  So all sales AND all resales are tied to two ranks on Amazon.  PS4 has several bundles, some available from Amazon and others from resellers.  Therefore, the sales are dispersed over more rankings, thus lowering the positioning of each.  Xbox, same thing.  

Again with the revisionism. Some xbox fans have actually tried to undermine the thread in the past when it incorrectly suggested ps4 would win a month. Its only bothering you now because its being said about switch.

 

So when people start assuming switch wins big because they have 2 high sku we are entitled to point out amazon doesnt accurately represent the margin of victory and can be biased towards a certain console .

 

Previously it was ps4, now its switch and thats just facts.