listereo said:
You can't put a value on art, you fool! It can't be proven! Is the Mona Lisa really that important, or just well marketed? Who can say! Paris puts an awful lot of money into convincing the world that it's the best city with the finest art, so you ought to doubt what is said. It's easy to just lean back and point at numbers, but what about Psychonauts? Brilliant! Hilarious! Inventive! Beautiful! Polished! Well reviewed! Massively outsold by 50 Cent: Bulletproof!
Does that make it a bad or meaningless game? Statistically, yes.
You argue like a republican.
What in the Vast Cartoony Tomes of the Necrowombicom are we babbling about, anyway? This has nothing to do with Sony vs. Sony! Curse you, pride!
Your argument fails in two ways. 1) We're not discussing an individual game. We're discussing a large group of games. I would make the case that Metal Gear Solid 2 isn't nearly as good as Metal Gear Twin Snakes, but this can't be proven, because it boils down to a personal preference. I can, however, make the case that the PS2 has better RPGs than the Xbox, using the statistical evidence of how the top 10 exclusive RPGs, using the exclusive status as a stipulation to exclude games that appear on multiple consoles, (FFXII, FFX, Suikoden 3, DQ8, DC2, KH2, KH1, SHC, CoN, FFX2 for the PS2 and KOTOR, KOTOR 2, Morrowind/GOTYE, Jade Empire, Fable/LC, Bard Tale, Arx Fatalis, Sudeki, Pirates!, Pirates of the Caribbean) have a radically different media average, as well as how I can make the case that the PS2 launch had one of the best launches in the past two generations.
2) I never made the case that sales dictate the quality of a game, and it's impossible to prove that, especially as there's more statistical proof to the contrary. I also fail to see how you could even twist my words to state that.