WereKitten said:
The generalisation of saying that the 360 is only a "shooterbox" is dumb and wrong as most generalisations are. Had you gone the way of saying: "I don't care about the sales, what matters to me is that a 360 owner has a wide variety of genres to choose from, and for each genre there are excellent games" then anybody would have had to agree with your argument. But you instead went the way of numbers and sales and statistics to demonstrate that an average 360 gamer is not skewed towards shooters more than a different console owner, and there you point was not made, actually it failed in multiple ways. 1) Because counting games from a top 10 is empty of any real significance. 2) Because you chose to only count exclusives. The numbers I pulled from this very site demonstrate a simple thing: if a random, average gamer goes into a shop and comes out with a big game (top 25) for the 360 then in 48% of the cases it's a shooter. If it's for the PS3 then it's a shooter in only 24% of the cases. Doesn't this answer your original post about the inclinations towards genres of the 360 gamer? After all your OP started with: "360 gamer = shooter whore. The slightly aloof arguement goes like this. Sony has a more diverse demographic (pompous much?) and the 360 owners just buy shooters. However the following evidence of top selling exclusives would seem to disagree... actually it blows that myth totally out of the water!" Please comment on these numbers, you've done enough patting on the back of those who agreed with you :)
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Sadly, I don't think you're even going to get an honest attempt at a rebuttal. You've been ignored thusfar by any who would say otherwise.
Frankly I don't blame them. Surely they must realize after reading your first post that counting titles without weighting their sales is absurd. Well meaning, no doubt, but it's still dishonest, however unitentional it may have been.
