| RolStoppable said: I suppose if you lower your expectations enough, everything can be acceptable. Apply your reasoning to VGC itself. It's time to start looking at this site as one that its owner doesn't care about as much as in 2007 anymore. It's not unusual to take months for some obvious errors to be adjusted. And in relation to that, the current reliability of VGC estimates is not great, but not terrible either. No, Kresnik, don't adopt such a mindset. |
I'm struggling with that analogy, Rol.
To apply the nearest thing I can think of: TV ratings in the USA. Nielsen says that most TV shows aren't being watched nearly as much as they were in the late 90's and earlier, due to the advent of more choice (cable); more options for broadcasting (+1 channels; Tivo; internet shows) etc.
Is that it for dedicated TV then? Does every sitcom that doesn't reach Friends numbers get cancelled? Every Sci-Fi show that doesn't hit the ratings of Star Trek TNG is swiftly cut?
Of course not. Markets adapt. And yes, it's definitely a case of "lowering your expectations" but such is life. Mediums of whatever it may be (TV/videogames/books/news delivery etc.) do not stay constant, they change with time.
I suppose you could call everything bad compared to what it used to be if you wanted. Which is fine. But I don't think that just because something has peaked, everything later is automatically terrible.
(Whether these 3DS numbers are actually terrible probably needs a few more years inside this generation to truly assess the damage).
