About the sales of SMG, one thing to remember

[Final-Fan]

fkusumot said:

omgwtfbbq said:
why would Sunshine be a better comparison than NSMB? DS and Wii are going to have similar user bases, both in terms of size and makeup. Gamecube has a much smaller and more focused user base. NSMB is absolutely the best game to compare galaxy with.

No. This is the trap that people fell into when trying to predict sales for SMG and used NSMB as the reference. 2D Mario is a different genre than 3D Mario. You can can compare the two and come up with lots of similarities but at root of it all they are very different games that appeal to their own distinct crowd. The comparison between the two can give you indications and you might adduce some small a priori noema that will help engender further investigation. Straight up comparison such as looking at sales for NSMB and assigning that some predictive value for SMG sales is not relevant because they are two radically different games.

I honestly can't remember the last time a poster used an English word I was totally unfamiliar with. 

(W3NID) noema (noun) in Husserlian philosophy:  the objective aspect of or the content within an intentional experience -- distinguished from noesis

That seems kinda ... obscurely hyperspecific for this discussion.  Also, I don't understand what exactly the "intentional experience" is.  Could you please elaborate on what you mean by an "a priori noema"? 

On a related note, is there any specific reason that that one sentence had such an abundance of 'college words'?