Amazon U.S. April bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

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duduspace1 said:

SWORDF1SH said:

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.

It's a little strange to suggest why Amazon got it wrong yourself but not accept other reasons like that Switch buyers tend to prefer off of Amazon. It's not even just hardware but also software that suggests this. 

There's even more evidence when you look in the NPD predictor thread. If Switch buyers prefer Amazon then the opposite must happen somewhere else to balance this out. Gamestop has the PS4 winning by a big big margin. This is the opposite and supports that Switch buyers prefer Amazon more than other console buyers (percentages).

I also suggested before that Switch buyers are probably older and older people are less likely to go to gaming dedicated stores like Gamestop.