The "truth" about GTA4 Xbox360 DLC

[Bodhesatva]

Lord N said:

Bodhesatva said:
Then answer the other questions, please. Do you agree that, as you put it, the "huge library of games that covered every genre" was a critical component of the PS2's overwhelming success, and that a large portion of the people chose that particular console because of this component?

Had you been paying attention, you'd see that they've already been answered. Yes, the games were a critical component, but that's really just stating the obvious, and the games were certainly no more critical a component than were the others. Had the PS2 released at a price of say, $500, then that would take away the affordability, which would have led to lower hardware sales regardless of what games were on it. It would have also rendered the PS2's DVD playback irrelevant as a DVD player could be had for $300. When a console sells as well as the PS2, it's never just one thing. It's because of a multitude of reasons.

 

I have been paying quite close attention, but your position is so deliberately convoluted that I'm specifically and directly forcing you to explicate its entirety. First, I think most would disagree with your assessment that all factors were equally important, and would instead argue that the games library was easily the most significant factor in the PS2's success. The easiest example, again, is that most would say "a huge library of games that covered every genre" was more critical to the PS2's success than DVD playback. In fact, I think the suggestion that these were equally important factors in the system's success borders on ludicrous, and is rather soundly rebutted by the Xbox's dismal sales in comparison. And by the PS1's success, I might add. The PS1 sold only 10-15 percent worse than the PS2: how do you explain that?

But more importantly, the entire argument is moot. Regardless of how you place the significance of these factors, you agree that the games assisted in selling the console, yes? You agree that of these multitude of reasons, games are one. As Grand Theft Auto was quite easily the best selling franchise in the history of the PS2, it would be a keystone franchise, and thus it follows that GTA was an important selling point for the system, too.

Therefore, I assume you agree that one of the reasons the PS2 sold was Grand Theft Auto. Since no one was arguing that GTA was the exclusive reason the PS2 sold, you're simply beating a straw man to death.