On the Carless affair

[shams]

ROFL!

Talk about Cherry picking...

Its widely known that software figures on VG aren't anywhere as accurate as the hardware figures. I definitely take them with a grain of salt - but its still a lot more accurate than making figures up *myself* (with absolutely no basis to them).

I just don't understand what the detractors WANT with VG...

1/ If you don't like the site, or the numbers - DON'T COME HERE!

2/ No matter what happens to the numbers here, the site will *never* fold or vanish - it will always be around (or replaced by another equiv. site).

3/ There is empirical proof to show that all the numbers have improved in accuracy over time. The same will be true of the software figures, just as it was of the hardware figures.

Untill NPD (or another tracking site) does what VG does - but better - it will remain the primary source on the web for these figures. Even if ALL it does is catalog & database publicly available figures - its still a great service. It has *nothing* to do with "confidence".
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This is why I love the Internet. If something was on TV people didn't like, they would change the channel. But if people see something they don't like on the web, they can spend all night ranting about WHY they don't like it (rather than just ignoring it) - rather than looking for something they do like.