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axt113 on 03 June 2014
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Twilord said:
axt113 said:
It was not the best game, reviews don't decide success, sales and profitability do, if it had been the best game, Nintendo would not be reporting a loss for the last fiscal year


As a designer I'm gonna tell you an important adage that you can take with you:

"Success does demand quality, but quality does not demand success."

 

From a quality angle it was quite possible the best game of the last year, from a success angle you're completely right.


Books are touted as best selling, not best reviewed.

 

Without sales or profitability, you cannot define best, it is the consumers who have all the power, not the reviewers or the fanbois



Rumors indicate that it is planning on following the first approach, sticking a new, motion-sensitive controller onto an existing console. Our perspective is that this is the worst of the three options.

-Clayton Christensen back in 2007 already knew Move would be a bad idea