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quickrick said:
RolStoppable said:

Your bias played a trick on you. You saw a bunch of predictions that had Switch ahead by more than one million units, got upset by that and subsequently started to believe that it's a widespread opinion that Switch will destroy the PS4 in 2018. Remember, the whole "fall of a cliff" meme also came to be because you overreacted.

Here are the ResetEra predictions:

PS4 Switch Xbox One
6500 5300 4100
5600 6100 4000
5610 5500 4400
4800 6500 4000
5800 6000 4000
5750 6150 4200
5250 5500 4350
5200 6300 4700
6500 5700 4100
5600 6200 3500
5800 5200 4100
5600 5400 3990
5700 6300 3700
5678 5432 3456
4900 5450 3950
5030 5400 3850
5900 6500 3900
5000 6000 3850
5820 5650 3850
5500 6000 5501
5780 7000 3475
5450 8360 3900
6000 6100 3900
5700 6200 3700
5200 4500 4300
5100 7500 3500
5500 6000 3800
6000 7500 4000
7000 5500 4000
5760 5000 4080
5400 6700 4250
5600 7100 4600
6700 6700 4100
5000 6250 5000
5200 5500 4500
4750 5850 3850
5700 6500 4100
5400 5600 3900
5800 6100 4200
5010 7750 3780
5750 6600 4000
5318 5368 4169
4800 6000 4300
5100 4800 4200
5000 6250 3750
5500 6000 3700
4914 4392 4129
6500 7500 4200
5700 5500 3800
5555 6666 4444
3900 7200 2900
4100 6000 4250
5340 6320 3980
4907 6707 4307
10000 6000 6100
5600 6200 4200
5950 5200 3500
5800 7800 3500
5940 6370 3510
5100 6600 3900
5550 8000 4500
6500 6000 3700
5450 6750 3980
4850 6100 3650
6250 5750 4725
5320 7100 3400
6100 7200 3800
5300 6100 3900
4900 5800 4400
5880 6861 3899
4850 6200 4220
5200 6400 4100
6000 7750 5000
5250 6900 4050
6200 6500 3800
6000 4400 4550
5350 6050 3750
5341 4525 6489
5002 6801 3903
5550 6640 3970
5850 6350 4000
5500 6650 4100
6500 6000 3500
5665 6255 4445
5100 7250 4400
5750 6030 3930
5576,40 6210,78 4086,42

The ResetEra consensus is that Switch wins by a good 600k units in 2018 or sells about 12% more. The consensus was not that Switch will destroy the PS4, because the margin of victory is too small to draw such a conclusion.

Generalisations are bad. They remove accountability while at the same time they commonly misrepresent a situation; at times it's deliberate, but it's also possible to happen without any ill-intentions. Throwing out an accusation is very easy by means of a generalisation. It's bad enough when it's done within the confines of the VGC community, but using another website's community as a scapegoat to claim heavy Nintendo bias is much worse. As it turns out, not even that is true, so your claims and subsequent defense of them have been especially bad.

sure if you combine everything it looks better, but out of 60 predictions,  i counted like like 48 votes out of 60 i think, that had switch over  by around 800k-1.5 million, to me that is destroying and would basically mean switch has to win almost have to win every npd to achieve this.

Drawing from a smaller group of numbers will probably give you a vastly different result but it doesn't really matter. Winning the whole year by 1 million still wouldn't be proper dominating the competition over the course of a year.

 

And as a whole it's 600K so your point doesn't really matter.