| RolStoppable said: The justification for the wrong number is that it is wrong. Your claim is that Nintendo PR cannot be wrong and that's why there can't be a margin of error when Nintendo PR is supposed to know the numbers. By the way, the margin of error for April 2017 is 36k which is 13%, because the March numbers were already definitive fact, so the margin of error is calculated solely based on April numbers. The precedent of Nintendo PR being wrong on basic numbers remains. |
Hmm, one does not mutually exclude the other and you've clearly shown that you do not respect the spirit of my argument so nothing came through and I have to explain again ...
Nintendo PR only applies to the total system figures so using it to extrapolate the numbers in comparison to the individual monthly NPD data will obviously be problematic but given the context of their "45% attach ratio" claim, their statement is indeed correct for the most part since it's descriptive about total hardware numbers rather being a monthly breakdown which gives Nintendo's claim a 3% error compared to the combined NPD data ...
1.222M (PR) vs 1.186M (NPD)
| RolStoppable said: It's the same case here. The 8.2m figure of Nintendo's PR is considered suspicious because the numbers don't add up. You and others have been repeatedly asked to lay out the maths for Switch sales in November, but no such attempt has been made by you guys. That leaves us with two options: 1. You guys comprehend maths and realize that the numbers don't add up, so you are content with trying to get a rise out of people. |
Numbers don't lie and numbers don't care about either you or I or anyone else's bias ... 
"because the numbers don't add up", haha that statement you put out couldn't be anymore about the 'feels' or subjectivity than it already is ...
I did try previously but the fact that Nintendo has made a couple of intractable statement means that there's a near infinite amount of solutions which could satisfy every statements conditions so why deal with information of low value when we have very specific information that's of high value ? I also find it ironic that you're potentially poking fun at my math ability when I have some postsecondary educational experience in that area while you on the other hand keep constantly tripping on a MK8D PR statement ...
With the MK8D attach ratio statement being solved I don't think you have a precedent anymore to hold on ...
| RolStoppable said: Also, as has been pointed out, VGC isn't the only sales website where Nintendo's PR is called into question. It's the same on ResetEra. Do you believe in a widespread pro-Switch conspiracy? |
I think you along with the others in here might need to come to terms with the possibility that Nintendo's methodology for collecting their internal data is just as good as NPD's or possibly even better and that the only so called "maths" to comprehend specific figures released by Nintendo ...
Is ResetEra itself supposed to be some beacon of conviction to validate your claims ?
