Did Nintendo screw us?

[Final-Fan]

Smash_Brother said:

Final-Fan said:
If you PERSONALLY hate almost every single PS2 game in existence, that does NOT mean that all those games can objectively be called "utter garbage".

On the contrary. I've called them utter garbage many times and I was quite objective as I did so.

Don't take it personally. I readily acknowledge that I'm the minority in this opinion, but unless someone wants to buy me a new PS2 and all of the games they think I should try, my opinion will not change.

That said, I acknowledge that most Wii games are also garbage. In fact, most games in general are garbage, but this is the nature of any market where creative output is a factor in product development.

objective adj. 1 b: of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind
3 a: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations

Here, I am using "objective" to mean the CONSENSUS of hundreds (reviewers) or millions (gamers) of subjective opinions. After all, "objective" reality, the world we live in, is defined by consensus opinion. Those who disagree with the consensus are, in that case, insane.

You are free to have the opinion that you do of PS2 games; neither I nor any sensible person will try to deny you that. But when you attempt to use your PERSONAL dislike of all those games to base an argument on that attempts to make a statement pertaining to ALL gamers, your argument fails! Basically, you're making arguments based on a statistical sample of one person -- you. That's fine if we're talking about YOU, but we're talking about the whole market, the whole industry, and that's why your statement can't (yes, can't) be both objective and accurate.