VGChartz Sales Comparison Charts March 2023 Discussion Thread

[Zippy6]

haxxiy said:

Zippy6 said:

Yeah I get that, 5 times sales = 400% increase. But I would view "up by five times" to actually mean it's six times sales. It's not one times, it's up five times, so six times. Just as 1 up by 5 would mean 6, and it would need to be up to 5 to mean 5. The wording is a bit weird to me. But I'll take it they actually mean 400% for now. 

Would you view "up by one time" to actually mean a doubling then? By deductive reasoning you should, but that yields zero results on search engines.

One times five is five, not six, after all. Up 'to' makes sense only if there's a confidence interval.

Yes I would. For example if a console sold 100,000 then five times equals 500,000 so "up by five times" should be equivalent to "up by 500,000". Resulting in 600,000. 

Increased to 5 times = increased to 500,000  Increased by 5 times = increased by 500,000