Global Hardware 16 February 2019

[Bofferbrauer2]

HylianSwordsman said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

This thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=235297&page=35

It compares sales positions at Amazon, Best Buy and Gamestop to predict the sales ratio between the different consoles, and for February the tool pretty much expects switch to outsell PS4 2:1, and that PS4 and XBO sales are very close to each other, with a slight edge for the XBO.

So if the ratio is correct, then Either Switch and XBO need to get massively uplifted or PS4 is selling about 30k too much in the US per week (or any mix of the 2).

Wow, that's a neat tool. How accurate has it proven to be thus far? From that first post, it looks like save for a few exceptions it usually gets the winner right and Switch and PS4 pretty closely, but not so much with Xbox, but that it's been getting better over time.

Outside of the holidays (which gets scewed too much by promotions and rush sales in brick&Mortar stores) and after some adjustments it is pretty close to correct, just preorder bundles are still throwing the whole chart off sometimes. But there are none for February, so no problem there.

In other words, I thrust the tool more right now than the numbers we have for this week.