Would the Wii U be in a much better state if MK8 released last Christmas?

[axt113]

Twilord said:

axt113 said:

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

If you use sales and profitablity as benchmarks of what is best then works like Okami suck while ones like Twilight and Justin Bieber Albums are among the best things ever. While that is financially true, and fascinating, it doesn't mean much.

 

[[[I realize it is true that Justin Bieber as a character was arguably high-quality (his music wasn't, but props to his character desigers for how well they worked it prior to his complete failure as an entity - they may want to pay closer attention to their raw materials next time) and that Twilight was effectively high quality as romance porn despite its countless literary failings.]]]

Neither Twilight nor Justin Beiber are among the most successful products in their respective genres, far more artists have sold far more albums than Beiber, far more movies have been more successful than Twilight movies and far more books have sold more than the novels (and when one takes into account inflation of the dollar, the money made by others has been higher as well), so don't worry, those products are not the best.  In Music for example, that title goes to people such as Elvis, the Beatles and Jackson (and no one can honestly deny that they deserve such accolades)