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Punished_Blinx posted...

Why do we need concrete numbers to know that selling half of Remake isn't great?

........do I really need to explain why knowing the sales numbers for something would tell you if something sold bad or not?

Punished_Blinx posted...

Why do you think it's not possible for a game to sell half of the previous entry but still not be a massive flop?

Because its highly possible the game, in fact, did NOT sell half than its predecessors did since we do not know the sales numbers from a lot of regions (after all, he did say "about half", and not actually "sold half"). After all, this is still just a analyst taking a swing at various data like trophy numbers and things like that. (This trophy thing was in one of those other links, one of those 2 million click-bait ones. They were doing guesswork via data like trophies)

This is one of the methods another analyst ampere used. Using trophies as data is one of the poorer methods to use to guess game sales because not all players actually sync their trophies to psn servers or bother connecting their playstations to the internet period.

Punished_Blinx posted...

What do you think is inaccurate about the information presented from Daniel Ahmed?

Why do you feel the need to source further than an analyst whose job it is is to provide sales and performance information to people who work in the industry?

My biggest problem is because he still never actually answered what data he himself was actually looking at and is basically saying "trust me bro"

Yeah its his job as a analyst, but again this whole thing is still all still maybes, probables, hopefullys. Etc. since analysts aren't absolutely flawless.
Punished_Blinx posted...

Do they provide an update for every single game? What if they don't bother?

Of course not. There is some games we do know the sales numbers until literal years later, like when capcom put on their website that platinum titles page for potential investors that displayed their concrete sales numbers for a ton of games, even ones stretching back to the 16 bit console days.
https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html

Mega man 11 btw is one of these games. We straight up did not know that mega man 11 officially became the best selling mega man game in the entire series until like, 2 years later or something like that. Finally fantasy 7 obviously is a way more anticipated game, but its barely been over a month since it released. Give it time.