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quickrick on 29 November 2018
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RolStoppable said:
pikashoe said:

That seems strange most of that week was still in November.

Here's how it works:

NPD doesn't track from first day of any given month to last day of the same month, but in either four or five weeks that start on Sundays. The first two months of any given quarter are 4-week-periods, the final month of any given quarter is a 5-week-period. That amounts to 52 weeks of tracking, or 364 days. This means every year has either one missing day or two if it's a leap year. Eventually that creates a misalignment of which weeks go to which month, such as the specific case you are talking about. NPD corrects this by changing the January tracking period to five weeks every five or six years depending on a specific rule. January 2018 was such a month, so this year the weeks of any given period align much closer with their respective months again.

quickrick said:

I dont think it's a disaster at all. People will dismiss the numbers because there to low to believe when NPD comes reality will sink in and hopefully people  can learn to trust Nintendo numbers instead of treating them like a joke when they are low only of course. 

I hope you realize that this works the other way around as well: People want the LTD number to be true because it suits their bias.

Yesterday I've responded to a post that outlined a previous big mistake in Nintendo's PR, and I did the maths if it's more likely or not that the current PR contains a mistake. That post wasn't challenged by anyone, either because nobody wants to do any maths or because it's more convenient to believe the 8.2m figure if no maths are done.

i did challenge it. 

"what Rolstoppable   wrote is  speculation nobody knows what switch did last year during those 5 days last year, it could be anywhere from 270-400 that's something we will never know, what we do know is nintendo gave a LTD for switch in the US, and it nintendo have never giving a false LTD in the US before, or a LTD for the US with missing numbers, it has never happened before, i don't see any reason to doubt these numbers and not trust Nintendo."