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Nuvendil on 01 March 2018
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quickrick said:
Nuvendil said:

And how accurate were they the other ten months?  Or over the last several years?  Amazon can be wrong, but it is a rare occurence.  The others being wrong is a common occurrence. 

Having said that, I do believe this month will be close.

How many times has amazon been wrong in rankings since switch came out, its a different ball game with 3 competitive consoles. amazon was just wrong in december when it had ps4 with 2 sku's above xbox. 

Twice.  May and November.  

In May, PS4 was damn close to having the top SKU.  And more importantly, the Switch was still going in and out of stock but was also being bought in droves from *resellers*, distorting its ranking since obviously only new sales count to NPD.

And November was the launch month for the X.  Launch months are always at risk for inaccuracies due to *preorders* which don't effect rankings for that month.  

It's not due to competition, it's due to distortions that were known and recognized.  Especially November.

And even with those 2 months, that's an 82% accuracy rate, just a few percent below the average of 85% and a higher accuracy rate than 2016, which was 75%.  

So yeah, *toootally* different.