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Carl on 31 January 2015

Monthly threads gets my modling vote

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binary solo on 31 January 2015

So, what if Amazon gets a 100% record with NPD for the whole of 2015? It'll pretty much seal the deal in terms of how VGC will need to estimate US numbers because if VGC is out of what with Amazon it means they will be out of whack with NPD. That means VGC will have enough information pre-NPD to make adjustments.

We are told that VGC bases estimates not just on the small amount of sales data it gets, they also use other sales trending information. If the Amazon monthly and weekly best seller lists (for hardware at least) become a very reliable trend indicator then VGC would be remiss not to take account of this freely available information. It can never help with actual numbers, but it would be useful as a "do the numbers look right" test.

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DonFerrari on 31 January 2015

Carl2291 said:
Monthly threads gets my modling vote

Carl, could you run that to moding team to see if they preffer a thread a month or a megaconvo? Thanks

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Fusioncode on 31 January 2015

Nation threads tend to become... messy. I'd rather we just create a new one every month.

My two cents.

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DonFerrari on 31 January 2015

Fusioncode said:
Nation threads tend to become... messy. I'd rather we just create a new one every month.

My two cents.

I quite don't have the discipline to keep all the posts on the PS Nation read... I'm like 4 months late on there.

duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

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OttoniBastos on 31 January 2015

binary solo said:
So, what if Amazon gets a 100% record with NPD for the whole of 2015? It'll pretty much seal the deal in terms of how VGC will need to estimate US numbers because if VGC is out of what with Amazon it means they will be out of whack with NPD. That ,eams VGC will have enough information pre-NPD to make adjustments.

We are told that VGC bases estimates not just on the small amount of sales data it gets, they also use other sales trending information. If the Amazon monthly and weekly best seller lists (for hardware at least) become a very reliable trend indicator then VGC would be remiss not to take account of this freely available information. It can never help with actual numbers, but it would be useful as a "do the numbers look right" test.

Yeah ioi should start using Amazon as one of his parameters of prediction(at least on USA). I can bet people here will have predictions way more accurate than ioi's this month thanks to amazon.