I wonder why anyone who isn’t a shareholder in camera companies would care do that that, though.New models can become best sellers almost instantly, the pre-orders stack up so its a matter of how many cameras can be delivered initially. When Sony releases a new camera, the same happens. To determine popularity, a look at sales over a long period, like a year is needed.
virtually useless stats, just like "amazon sales ranks" and most other published "sales rankings". No actual unit numbers and each individual SKU of a camera model listed separately. eg M50 in white, M50 in black, with or without the various kit lens options.
Sony A7 III also listed under 2 entries (#20, #22 - one being a kit?).
EOS R "body only": why? kit not in ranking because it was not (yet) available in october in jpn? or sales too low to make it into ranking?
more confusion and open questions than answers ...
Why on earth can't they just consolidate their raw data and present two clear, specific numbers per camera model:
1. "actual total number of units sold in month X (eg October) in Japan" (all SKUs lumped together).
2. total number units sold year to date 2018 (eg jan 1 - Oct 31) in Japan"
... then it could start to make a little bit of sense. Just stupid, BCN!
Not stupid at all, we are not their primary customer, they charge their corporate customers for the detailed sales data and those companies want to know exactly what colors and configurations sell well as how many sold. To collect that data is expensive, so you pay a high price for it. They update the data DAILY as well, its a big undertaking and includes all sorts of appliances, anything they can find a buyer for.
Not stupid at all, we are not their primary customer, they charge their corporate customers for the detailed sales data and those companies want to know exactly what colors and configurations sell well as how many sold. To collect that data is expensive, so you pay a high price for it. They update the data DAILY as well, its a big undertaking and includes all sorts of appliances, anything they can find a buyer for.
yes. I know that perfectly well. And it is fine with me and hopefully their paying corporate clients get what they want and need.
But I would prefer if those market research firms would just refrain from publishing such useless and/or even misleading "Sales Rankings" to the "not so well informed general public". The way it is presented almost qualifies as "fake news" - and triggers further dissemination of BS data ... see this thread and thread title here.
But I would prefer if those market research firms would just refrain from publishing such useless and/or even misleading "Sales Rankings" to the "not so well informed general public".