thats 3.92% from only last gens sales figure for 1 month.... the other generation have also sold a fair amount of filler cards..... there is a demand for them.. get over it.. if there wasnt a demand for them then noone at al lwould buy them its a fact.
We are not discussing if they sold at all or not. Put anything for sale and it will sell. Those 200k people could have bought other better cards just as well, it's not as if just because that card does not exist they can't get a card with their money. They can, and better cards, in fact. That's why they are irrelevant.
What I am discussing is if those cards should exist to begin with, and no they shouldn't (if this was a world friendly to consumers). I gave the example of the HD5830 above. It costed $100 more (66% more) than the HD5770 for a 10% increase in performance. The HD5850 costed around $50 more than the 5830 (20% more) for a 36% increase in performance.
So some people bought the HD5830, well they shouldn't, plain and simple and that's only proving my point. Of course they sell some units, that's the issue, following with the 5830 example, the issue is it sold to some people and those people got ripped off and the price of HD5850 stays very high and never comes down too much, because that small yet significant percent of people which would have become the driving force that would have pushed the HD5850 to $250, bought a much worse card at that price, instead of keeping their money until HD5850 was available at their desired price. They basically didn't exercise the most basic principle of free markets and fell for the trap.
