Esparadrapo said:
He's just a pot calling a kettle black. His 36 million estimate is off by around the same amount as Zubytech's only in the opposite direction and he's mad because people are calling him out on it. |
Zubytech is an obnoxious console warrior, and I don't say that lightly. I muted his misinforming arse years ago.
There is a difference between propagating data that is outside all realistic estimates, and favoring the estimate that is more positive within the believable range. I remember challenging one of Welfare's monthly estimates here on VGChartz, and I'm pretty sure his numbers indeed proved too positive for Xbox and the data eventually got adjusted down. His mistake (and VGChartz's mistake) was the tendency to choose the optimistic figure within the aggregated range (and assume higher Series S splits for revenue based data). But they did make sure to keep it within the acceptable range. This isn't how Zubytech does things, which is what's pissing off Welfare. Zuby's data is often devoid of all reason, he doesn't seem to put any real effort analyzing anything.
Personally, I didn't take AmpereAnalysis and MediaCreate's low Xbox estimates at face value, but I didn't flatout ignore them either. I figured the actual sales were somewhere between the two ends. Zuby goes below the low end and he doesn't do it because he's smart, he does it because he's a fanboy lol.








