bugmenot on 20 September 2007
How accurate do you think manufacturer numbers are anyway? Sure they have employees and a vested interest versus volunteered information here, but it's not like Microsoft has unlimited resources to track sold to consumer numbers. They do not have an infinite ability to be accurate.
Besides, I thought VGChatz is regularly calibrated against other somewhat reliable independent sources like NPD. So either NPD is out, or Microsoft is. Personally I'd trust the independents over MS any day. And make no mistake, there is no real shareholder legal requirement for accurate reporting of consumer numbers by the big three, seen as they sell their wares to retailers and not direct to consumers.
