Topic: Wii U Sales Rank Up 875% on Amazon UK

[paleselan]

http://n4g.com/news/1263854/amazon-uk-wii-u-sales-rank-jumps-875-following-microsofts-xbox-one-reveal

Seems like Microsoft sells Wii U's better than Nintendo can.

[ShyGuy]

It would be nice if it's able to maintain this new momentum. Any reports from other countries? I know US Amazon doesn't sell Nintendo hardware.

[Caterkiller]

It will be interesting if this kind of trend can keep up and if it will happen in other outlets. It furthers my beliefs that gamers as well as the casual gamers and the general public are just smarter now. In one sense anyway. I don't buy into all the hysteria over the xbone just like I still don't buy into the Wii U hysteria. When more games come out and consistently people will shut up and forget about everything else. Any way back to my original point, I feel like the Wii was the last straw in gaming electronics, people are going to wait longer to pick up consoles.

There was a time when everyone was a rube(as Ian would say) and we ate up everything a company had to say as if it were gospel. People used to buy into the hype so easily but it seems like now people are like "you won't fool me, I can wait for a price drop." For some of these Amazon people, seeing what Microsoft showed and that little price drop were enough to make blip in the sales for Wii U.

I'm not saying the new machines won't sell but now a'days people just understand the game better to get more for their money.

[Guitar Smasher]

Using percentages to describe changes in rank is meaningless.  Ranking is an ordering system, not a quantity, and to compare a change in position just doesn't make sense - it's like saying Nintendo has 875% more "ranks" than before.

I could understand if they had chosen to describe the change as moving from one percentile of the total set to another, but that's not how it's being presented.

With respect to cause for the sales increase, I don't have an opinion.  It's only a single data point so it's tough to say what the cause behind it is.  But the math part just really annoys me.

[Pixelated Pixies]

Using percentages to describe changes in rank is meaningless.  Ranking is an ordering system, not a quantity, and to compare a change in position just doesn't make sense - it's like saying Nintendo has 875% more "ranks" than before.

I could understand if they had chosen to describe the change as moving from one percentile of the total set to another, but that's not how it's being presented.

With respect to cause for the sales increase, I don't have an opinion.  It's only a single data point so it's tough to say what the cause behind it is.  But the math part just really annoys me.

You must be really popular at parties.

[Fatty The Hutt]

There was a time when everyone was a rube(as Ian would say) and we ate up everything a company had to say as if it were gospel. People used to buy into the hype so easily 

Those people moved on to buy Apple products