The justification for the wrong number is that it is wrong. Your claim is that Nintendo PR cannot be wrong and that's why there can't be a margin of error when Nintendo PR is supposed to know the numbers. By the way, the margin of error for April 2017 is 36k which is 13%, because the March numbers were already definitive fact, so the margin of error is calculated solely based on April numbers. The precedent of Nintendo PR being wrong on basic numbers remains.

It's the same case here. The 8.2m figure of Nintendo's PR is considered suspicious because the numbers don't add up. You and others have been repeatedly asked to lay out the maths for Switch sales in November, but no such attempt has been made by you guys. That leaves us with two options:

1. You guys comprehend maths and realize that the numbers don't add up, so you are content with trying to get a rise out of people.
2. You guys don't comprehend maths, so you don't even try in the first place.

Also, as has been pointed out, VGC isn't the only sales website where Nintendo's PR is called into question. It's the same on ResetEra. Do you believe in a widespread pro-Switch conspiracy?

By now it's evident that neither you or fatslob have the necessary skills to provide a coherent counter-argument. Since this bores me, I will assume your position and do the necessary maths based on the pieces of information that are in Nintendo's PR.

1. The revenue figure of $250m only covers November 22nd to 26th which you apparently didn't comprehend, because you follow it up with an unnecessary assumption when it is right there in the PR that the figure includes hardware of Switch, 3DS, SNES Classic and NES Classic, as well as first party games and first party accessories. Excluded are third party games and third party accessories.

2. What ties into the above figure are sales of 1m Switch first party games over the same period. Since Nintendo had discounts of around 33% on selected first party titles on the Switch eShop, I'll put the average selling price of first party games over that period at $50 for simplicity's sake. That's $50m in spending.

3. Now comes the part with the unaddressed quantities that necessitate guesstimates.

3DS hardware - 100k at an ASP of $120 = $12m
3DS first party software - 150k at an ASP of $30 = $4.5m
Switch accessories - $8m, that's a combination of more than 100k Joy-Con sets and Pro Controllers
NES Classic - 50k units at $60 = $3m
SNES Classic - 50k units at $80 = $4m

Estimated total: $31.5m. Let's round this down to $30m for simplicity's sake.

4. Now we can substract a total of $80m from the $250m figure because of the things outlined in point 2 and 3. $170m divided by $300 gives us 567k units of Switch hardware sold during November 22nd-26th.

5. The figure of 567k is above the known value of Wii sales on its best Black Friday (single day): 500k. Let's assume there wasn't much more stock available than these 500k for the remaining four days of Nintendo's comparison and we are good.

6. The figure of 567k leaves us with ~300k for the preciding two weeks and a half in the November tracking period. That's just about enough to make it realistic to account for the hardware boost that happened because of Pokémon Let's Go that was released one week before Black Friday.

7. The figure of 567k gives us a November 2017 value of 264k for the same five-day-period, leaving a weekly average of ~170k for the rest of the 2017 November tracking period. The explanation for those November numbers is that Super Mario Odyssey provided a significant boost and there wasn't any noteworthy stockpiling for the days surrounding Black Friday.

And now we'll just have to wait and see what Rol and the rest of the gang have to say about this, because this is by far the best argument that has been made against their position that there's an error with the 8.2m LTD figure.

By now it's evident that neither you or fatslob have the necessary skills to provide a coherent counter-argument. Since this bores me, I will assume your position and do the necessary maths based on the pieces of information that are in Nintendo's PR.

1. The revenue figure of $250m only covers November 22nd to 26th which you apparently didn't comprehend, because you follow it up with an unnecessary assumption when it is right there in the PR that the figure includes hardware of Switch, 3DS, SNES Classic and NES Classic, as well as first party games and first party accessories. Excluded are third party games and third party accessories.

2. What ties into the above figure are sales of 1m Switch first party games over the same period. Since Nintendo had discounts of around 33% on selected first party titles on the Switch eShop, I'll put the average selling price of first party games over that period at $50 for simplicity's sake. That's $50m in spending.

3. Now comes the part with the unaddressed quantities that necessitate guesstimates.

3DS hardware - 100k at an ASP of $120 = $12m
3DS first party software - 150k at an ASP of $30 = $4.5m
Switch accessories - $8m, that's a combination of more than 100k Joy-Con sets and Pro Controllers
NES Classic - 50k units at $60 = $3m
SNES Classic - 50k units at $80 = $4m

Estimated total: $31.5m. Let's round this down to $30m for simplicity's sake.

4. Now we can substract a total of $80m from the $250m figure because of the things outlined in point 2 and 3. $170m divided by $300 gives us 567k units of Switch hardware sold during November 22nd-26th.

5. The figure of 567k is above the known value of Wii sales on its best Black Friday (single day): 500k. Let's assume there wasn't much more stock available than these 500k for the remaining four days of Nintendo's comparison and we are good.

6. The figure of 567k leaves us with ~300k for the preciding two weeks and a half in the November tracking period. That's just about enough to make it realistic to account for the hardware boost that happened because of Pokémon Let's Go that was released one week before Black Friday.

7. The figure of 567k gives us a November 2017 value of 264k for the same five-day-period, leaving a weekly average of ~170k for the rest of the 2017 November tracking period. The explanation for those November numbers is that Super Mario Odyssey provided a significant boost and there wasn't any noteworthy stockpiling for the days surrounding Black Friday.

And now we'll just have to wait and see what Rol and the rest of the gang have to say about this, because this is by far the best argument that has been made against their position that there's an error with the 8.2m LTD figure.

I'm just kind of befuddled why the poster referred to them-self in the 3rd person "Rol and the rest of the gang" and the use of "their position".