Engadget says: Xbox 360 Helped Define The Decade

[themanwithnoname]

Khuutra said:

themanwithnoname said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
I understand that they're an American web site so they don't care about the rest of the planet, and they probably love Gamerscores more than actual gaming innovations and revolutions, but I honestly don't see how something can define a decade if it can't sell in Japan.

Oh please, spare me this "they're an American site, they don't care about anywhere else but America" crap. It has sold well everywhere else and yeah, it's bombed in Japan, but guess what, if it's still sitting in second place by a healthy margin, then obviously Japan isn't that significant, and the US in this case has a far greater impact on the world, whether you'd like to admit it or not. Please bring a logical argument rather than the typical anti-American tripe.

Dude

It's hardly an anti-American tirade, it's a comment on his suspicions regarding a Western bias in their choice, which is not entirely unreasonable

Here's one for you, though:

It's awful hard to define a decade when you don't win in your own generation.

I never said it was, but it gets mentioned time and time again on this site and is a common implication that America is so full of itself, and I'm getting sick and tired of reading it. IMO selling well has absolutely nothing to do with defining something. If you're picking the films defining cinema or defining games, are those going to be the ones that sold the most? If so, there'd be no point in having this discussion at all, we could just go to those lists, copy/paste, and be done with it.