"The Wii doesn't sell quality games" - Any examples to back this up?

[Demotruk]

BTFeather55 said:

Demotruk said:
Have you played No More Heroes? It's full of nerdy humour, especially video game humour. It absolutely reeks of 'cult', in fact it revels in it. I didn't actually complete No More Heroes, but I was present as my housemate completed it and I watched all of the boss-fights. The only people I could recommend it to are my fellow nerds.

 

      Have you ever watched a Tarantino movie?  Even though they're mainly crime and action movies they are full of nerdy humour especially film geek humor.  And they absolutely reek of 'cult'.  Tarantino revels in being a 'cult' movie director.  The only people I would recommend them to are fans of cult films like myself.  Yet that hardly ever stops them from being the number one films at the box office in their first week(s) of release. 

 

Are you kidding me? Yes I have watched a Tarantino movie, I ask again have you played No More Heroes?

You are essentially trying to prove that cult is mainstream by using the exception to the rule. For every Pulp Fiction there are, how many Firefly's are there that have no mainstream success. I could use a similar argument to show that Star Wars proves that sci-fi is a popular mainstream genre, or I could say that The Lord of the Rings proves that everybody loves Fantasy novels. Of course that doesn't prove that at all, both are still predominantly niche genres, with exceptions.

 

Bringing up GTA makes me have to ask again, did you play No More Heroes? Acting like they're similar, even in humour or style, indicates to me that you don't know the game you're talking about.

 

From your other post though, you seem to be making the fallacy that internet hype = real life hype. But we have to remember that the internet pulls enthusiasts together so that it's never a reflection of society.