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duduspace1 on 25 April 2018
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SWORDF1SH said:
duduspace1 said:

I have been to the thread and commended the brilliant work been done plus the visibility that thread gives to more factors influencing NPD results that werent really visible from the Amazon Bestseller list.

My point however remains that the conclusion by some to explain the "Switch bias" was laughable in suggesting that the perceived bias arose out of a preferenc for Amazon by the Switch demographic.

Bundling, multiple SKUs and items going out of stock are all factors that influence the NPD outcome and that thread is illuminating this on an ongoing basis.

And my point is there is evidence that Switch buyers tend to prefer to buy on Amazon. You are welcome to your opinion and it's a decent opinion to have. I just don't agree with trying to completely shut down other people's opinions. It's also annoying when people try to make out that saying that Amazon sales favour Switch is having a pop at the console even when in the past I've also said that sales at places like Gamestop favour PS and Xbox.

Anyway, not sure why we're going down this route. My original comment is right, if a Switch Sku is number 1 on NPD, it's always going to be number 1 on Amazon if there is or isn't any bias because the theory is Amazon sales favour Switch.

That I disagree with. There is no such evidence. What you perceive as a tendency has already been and can be explained in  a lot of other ways. Such an assumption as you make is akin to saying that the presence of a person by a number of dead bodies automatically makes him a serial killer whereas it could make him a pathologist instead if you get my drift. It is too lazy an assumption to make considering the pervasiveness of online access to Amazon and some of the other online stores.

It is too simplistic as an hypothesis and sounds a lot worse when held out and argued as the sole explanation for the perceived phenomenon.