Malstrom: "My purpose is to reveal and inform people about Nintendo."

[happydolphin]

TruckOSaurus said:

happydolphin said:

Okay, at least it's consistent.

In that case I'll progress to the actual counter-argument. So, if a DS Platformer from 2006 does a better job selling than a 2012 3DS Racer, how would you interpret the data? (I'm using the hypothetical better to accentuate my point )

I know, I know,I know!

2D platformers are more popular than Racers!

Almost!

It would mean that that specific 2D platformer would be better than that specific Racer. (the metric being sales, i.e. appeal)

If you extrapolate the racer within its series, you could conclude that that specific 2D platformer was better than that racer series (in this occurrence Mario Kart). If you go one step further still and extrapolate the sales of this 2D platformer to its series (2D Mario in this occurrence), you could conclude that 2D Mario games sell more than Mario Kart games.

But we know that isn't true.

Hence, the argument is invalid.

This invalid argument also applies to 3D Mario (in lieu of Mario Kart) and fails to prove a point.  That's all I was trying to say.

It doesn't mean his point is untrue, it just means that the argument he used to get there was not valid.