Against the Industry (Malstrom)

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Torillian said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Torillian said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Torillian said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
The market has judged them better, see this is the flaw of many they think they are smarter than the consumers, no, that is foolishness

And what the market chooses is heavily based on their information about them.  Not to mention that a person buys a game before knowing its quality.  You don't get to play through a game in its entirety and then purchase it or not based on your experience, that's not how things work.  Purchasing a video game just proves that you think it will be worth it, not that it actually was.  I bought Earthbound completely by accident, and yet it was one of my best purchases at the time, now on the other hand I bought Afro Samurai with complete foreknowledge and still regret it.  How are all these consumers learning about a game's quality before they get to actually play it?

If that were true, then why have Mario and Zelda sequels sold millions, because people loved the first games so much that they wanted the sequels, they became popular because people loved the earlier games and it has continued to this day, if they were bad people would have stopped buying

So then games that keep their sales up over the series are deemed great.  And therefore since SotC sold more than Ico obviously Ico was a great game.

And yes, it proves that the games weren't awful, but doesn't prove that they're the best.

Actually, no it doesn't, see Ico and SOTC don't sell, people don't buy those games anymore, starcraft on the other hand still sells, constantly on the charts

http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Ocarina-Time-Collectors-Nintendo/dp/B0009Y808Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1253245371&sr=1-3

 

http://www.amazon.com/Ico-Playstation-2/dp/B00004YUWA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1253245343&sr=8-1

 

Check out the sales rankings, bam, I just proved under your logic that Ico is better than OoT.

Your argument is flawed for two reasons, one OoT is on Wii VC, and Amazon isn't a good bearing of sales anyways