Roronaa_chan said: There is no point in comparing spots with previous periods. The consoles are also charting lower, yet we don't know if they are selling less. Remember, #10 can mean one number or it can mean an entirely different number. It's all contextual. Gift cards already did well last year but with a continuous incrase in userbase they'll keep selling more and more, thus occupying a good chunk of the top, and pushing other items down.
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That's why with guessing at numbers you need a numerical chart for comparison. Which is why I brought in the VGC pre-order chart. You can theoretically fairly reliably pick rough launch week numbers across time periods for similar games. If pre-orders of game A end up X% of game B, which is similar and launched a year ago, then launch week of game A should also be close to X% of game B. Very early generation things might be a bit different because there are fewer people available to walk in and buy a game unpre-ordered. But stil if the pre-order difference is large enough then that sort of thing shouldn;t have too much of an inflating effect for the later launched game.
Unless VGC is way off base with hardware, then we do have somewhat of a benchmark for numbers. We know where PS4 and Xb one are sitting in the best sellers, and we have an estimate for the actual sales of those consoles. So that gives us the ability to reasonably guess that position 18 on this week's Amazon chart represents lower absolute numbers than position 2 on the best seller chart for the first week of March 2014. Because it seems that PS4 sales for early 2015 are a fair bit lower than they were for early 2014, and PS4's position on the Amazon best seller chart is somewhat lower in 2015 compared to 2014. So to some extent the relative does seem to approximate the absolute.
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