Nintendo -V- 3rd Parties

[impertinence]

DerNebel said:

impertinence said:
I laugh at all the people who go to the "just your opinion" card when they are confronted by the fact that Nintendo is the best video game developer in the world.

If you apply any sort of objective metric it's an obvious conclusion. Yet people insist on dismissing it based on their personal taste as if that has any bearing on the issue. Of course, this kind of reactionary behavior undermines the use of comparative adjectives all together and makes statements comparing anything meaningless.

For example if I say that Wii U has the best 3rd party support, people would get their panties in a bunch and go to the delusional argument or whatever. No one would care that my opinion is that for every iteration of Madden that misses a console, third party support gets better. In this case, it's perfectly acceptable to use objective measurements of what constitutes better or worse. So why is it so important to hold up subjective opinion when the fact that Nintendo rules the video game world come up?

Because it burns, that's why. It burns people to know in their heart of hearts that their personal favorite companies and entities will never reach past the ankles of Nintendo. Not in historical significance, not in hard sales, not in quality, not in any meaningful way. And when we burn on the inside, we look for ways to control that fire and go to irrational lengths to fool ourselves.

Cute rant you have there, still doesn't make the opinion that Nintendo is the best video game developer in the world more than an opinion though.

Despite your condesending attitude and dismisive language; I was not stating an opinion I was stating a fact. The fact(he, he) that you can't see it is an excellent example of what I am referring to when I say we go very far to hide unplesant truth from ourselves.

To make the argument simpler to understand for foreign readers: To use the word "best" with any kind of meaning (when not relating to personal taste) you have to look at objective measurable data. If people are willing to do that they will see that there is no way of looking at the numbers in the videogame world and come to any ther conclusion than this: Nintendo is the best video game developer in the world. Any other interpretation is subjective and a reflection of whomevers personal taste. In this day and age many people live under the false conviction that their personal opinion is somehow relevant and interesting to other people and such warrents whole threads on discussuion boards dedicated to them stating their opinions about all manner of things. All of this is just noise however, the facts and numbers are the same no matter how much you and others plug your ears and make up criteria to fit what you want to see.

For example, in my personal opinion Sid Meier is the best video game designer ever. This is a statement of my opinion, but it is not a fact. A factual analysis would require looking into number of games designed, their impact, their reception etc and the result would probably be that Shigeru Miyamoto is the best video game designer ever (I don't know that this is true, but I suspect it might be). The difference is that finding out who is the best video game designer is a topic of general interest, finding out who my favorite game designer is is useless and interesting only to myself and no one else in the entire world.