Engadget says: Xbox 360 Helped Define The Decade

[themanwithnoname]

Khuutra said:

themanwithnoname said:

Khuutra said:

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.

You have a fair point, and sales cannot be taken as an absolute metric.

I think, then, that Microsoft and Sony scrambling to make their own motion control solutions probably speaks more about how far Nintendo went with the DS and, later on, the Wii.

I'll agree with that line of thinking moreso than just the sales in Japan argument for sure.