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Conina on 12 October 2019
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RolStoppable said:
Conina said:

It is an (30 years old) established business news channel worth roughly $4 billion with coverage of U.S. and international financial markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Corporation

And IDC is one of the bigger market research companies with thousands of analysts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Corporation

But sure, let's just ignore or ridicule their estimates because the estimates of some other analysts are more in line with our own bias.

As far as I remember, IDC is the market research firm that got their PS4 number wrong despite Sony officially announcing it about three months before the IDC report. They may have lots of analysts, but apparently none that have enough competence for video game sales. There's no good reason to give IDC the benefit of the doubt when they couldn't even correctly relay a PS4 number that came directly from Sony.

If we rule out every person or company by default who has been proven wrong at least once in his/her estimates, there aren't any left, including the VGC numbers of course.

"They are always wrong" is as generalizing as "they are always right and I blindly trust their numbers".