Well, I'm someone who likes playing more than just Mario and CoD. (In fact I never like Mario) There are many games I love to play that has no where the sales of those two examples. One of my favorite all time console RPG was Vagrant Story and it was a flop in sales. This was not because this game was of low quality but because of the depth of it's combat system. So it not like developers in the past haven't tried to develop deep and better games on consoles. I guess this is why I'm more of a PC gamer.
For a recent example I had a lot of fun playing ther ugly cheap developing game like Mount & Blade. One of the best (sword fighting) action games I've played in a long time. OF course this game will never come close to the sales Of Cod or Mario.
