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chakkra 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.

Now that's an interesting fact that I would like to check. By any chance do you have a link for that? I tried to find it, but all I got was an article from Dec, 2017 where their senior analyst said, "I think the PS4 will probably get to 100 million in 2019."


https://www.tweaktown.com/news/60278/analyst-ps4-hit-100-million-2019-ps5-launch-2021/index.html