Graphics theory about video games...

[WereKitten]

donathos said:

Nintendo doesn't have to make the best games in every possible genre to make the "best games," or be the best software developer/publisher, or anything like that.  Nor does a person have to dislike dark brooding space marine games to think that Super Mario Galaxy is an all-time classic; it is not either/or.  It is possible for a given person to enjoy a wide variety of genres, and still believe that Nintendo has had a special quality over the last few decades which has lead them to create some of the most beloved video games, all time, as is demonstrated by numerous "best-of" lists both on and off this very site.

Just as you say "your opinion about the 'best games' is perfectly fine with me," it's also perfectly fine if you don't think Nintendo has the best games.  But to assume that someone who does think that must not like RPGs, RTSs, etc., is arrogant and lame.  And wrong.

It was not meant to be arrogant at all, only coherent with the idea that it does not make sense to compare games that are too different in genre.

As such, though the devs at Nintendo for example make the best pure platform games around, they don't fulfill the needs of lovers of driving or flight simulators, nor of lovers of RTS games. Thus, the only way someone could say "Nintendo makes the best games" period - and I always silently add a "for me" to such a statement - is if he/she's only interested into playing the kind of games Nintendo excels at.