| PAOerfulone said: That's nice. Are you writing a research paper? |
Sorry if I want to have an informed discussion supported by facts instead of pure bashing and wild speculations. Obviously here is not the right place for that.
| PAOerfulone said: Doesn't explain where they got that 46.9 million number from or the fact that the 0.3% of sales coming from Japan does not match at all with the actual statistic you get when you divide 110,000 units (the amount of Xbox One units reportedly sold in Japan) by 0.003, which gets you to 36,666,667 units. Even if we're being generous and say that the percentage of sales is actually 0.25%, and we just rounded up to 0.3%, that would still only equate to 44 million units sold, which is WAY off that 46.9 million mark. So they obviously fucked up somewhere. And unless we get numbers or confirmation from the only party or source that matters, Microsoft, then we can't take what these guys are saying seriously, because what they're saying doesn't make any sense. |
What you don't understand (or ignore):
- the 0.3% of sales coming from Japan aren't a fact, they are an estimate with margins of error
- the Famitsu numbers aren't facts but estimates with margins of error
- the VGC numbers aren't facts but estimates with margins of error
- the IDC numbers aren't facts but estimates with margins of error
- the numbers of the analyst Daniel Ahmad aren't facts but estimates with margins of error
- the numbers analysts X, Y or Z aren't facts but estimates with margins of error
- we don't know which numbers are the closest to the truth until Microsoft gives that information eventually
- multiplying or dividing estimate A with estimate b to prove that estimate C is wrong is a fool's errand and only serves confirmation bias
