| kowenicki said: @skee are you saying you have never argued over sales?... do me a favour mate. OT; sales is fact, everything else is opinion and there is little point in arguing about opinion. |
like Konewicki said sales are fact , the cannot be disputed or doughted , they aren't influenced or skewed by human opinion. That's why some might argue that they are a much better method of gaugin a games quality than opinion.
The problem is when you use factual information to proove something unrelated to that fact you still end up in the trap of subjectivity "Game X has 3 X the sales than game Y therfore it is a better game" , there is no direct correlation between sales and quality , there is however some sort of correlation between the apeal of a game and it's sales (but lack of martketing & promotion can get in the way of this) so some one who wanted to argue that X game had more apeal than Y game might be correct in using sales figures as an absoloute standard ( but like I said there are problems with that ) , this still doesn't proove what game is better.
The inconvenient truth is that there is no definitive way to compare the quality of a game , we can't apeal to common sense because game X will never be logicaly better than game Y , we play games for entertainment and entertainment cannot be quantifiably ( numbers ) measured. But factors like the console wars , buyers remorse , fanboys etc bring about the need to compare entertainment
