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happydolphin on 30 October 2012
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Immortal said:
Soundwave said:


If you can't dilineate between the design appeal/aesthetic of Animal Crossing, Super Mario, Pokemon, Mickey Mouse, Lego versus say James Bond, Resident Evil, Turok, 1080 Snowboarding, Perfect Dark, Eternal Darkness, etc. then sure, this thread is probably lost on you.

For everyone else, have at it.

And the appeal of the first GoldenEye directly lead to Activision making GoldenEye (2010) on the Wii, which is one of the best selling non-family-oriented games on the console.


I can certainly differentiate between James Bond and Mario, but I can't categorize all games so simply into two groups of "family-oriented" and "hardcore".

I'd contest that there's as much difference between the audiences for 1080 Snowboarding and Resident Evil as there is between, say, Pokemon and Just Dance. I doubt I'm the only one here who thinks this way and I highly doubt that the sales of games work that way, making this thread seem rather silly to me.

@happydolphin I'm not sure I can even agree that there is a witchhunt. Of course, that may be because I'm part of it, but I really don't see any reason for which you should be so passionately against anyone who's on the other side of this "casual Nintendo" argument. You find us overly defensive and dismissive of any arguments against Nintendo and we find you ridiculous in your arguments. There's nothing objectively wrong with us that I can concede we need to improve.

Regardless, telling people off really never helps, :P. No one's gonna concede that they've been doing something wrong when you just outright say it to them like that.

I've always liked you immortal, so it's nothing personal. I'm just totally fed up of the usual arguments and people labeling others as misrepresenting simply because they aim to point out possible truths using sales numbers selectively so as to draw patterns.

It's been a burden on me for the longest time and I'm going to vehemently fight against it, this is where I'm starting.

We are here to learn, we are here to analyze and we are here to speculate. If every time someone emits a hypothesis that has gaps but could use work, that people bash it, we will go nowhere on vgchartz. I think it's time we tried something new.