marc said:
Ah yes and true but you forget 1 thing... the beauty of monopoly Who is competing with NPD? No one is. Thus they can get away with pretty much anything and everyone will still use them since we really cant tell if they are telling the truth or not. If there were viable competition then thats a different story but this is not the case here. It the same issue we have MS and windows. They illegaly (and were found guilty of this) killed competition early on and in doing so pretty much got away with anything later. Bad security? Who cares, its not like they have any alternatives so lets take our time and not fix them till someone actually reports it. Someone lost their life savings because of a well documentd trojan? Not our problem it took 3 years to patch the exploit. This is what monopolies can do and NPD falls pretty much under that category at this time. I think everyone is taking the numbers much to seriously anyway. We all know that neither sources are 100% accurate and they may both be biased. Just take it as a grain of salt which is what every company does anyway. Im sure they have their own internal methods for getting real numbers. |
Very true Very true. A monopoly is not normally a good thing for the consumer and neither source is 100% accurate. I was just saying that as far as I know VG has nothing to lose by giving bad information, while NPD could lose a lot of money if nobody trusts them even being a monopoly.
Best choice; take both into consideration when trying to figure out the # of sales.