| Erik Aston said: Wow. I personally don't care about revenue. I think its a dumb stat because it just reflects price. But I think its funny to watch the evolution of defenses of the XBox business. As a business, it has failed, and revenue numbers are just spin. Going to the "why do you care defense?" is lame. As a gamer, I don't care. I'll play what I like. As an industry observer, its fun to debunk spin, and funner to predict when spin will change in the future. Talking about "casual victories" or game quality or condescendingly repeating my first name or saying that anyone who buys RB Wii is a "fanboy" or "stupid" is all garbage. It has nothing to do with anything. Now, if you want to make the argument that RB Wii won't sell well, go ahead. I personally think the core of the experience is partying with friends, and that experience will sell on Wii, and contribute greatly to revenue. |
What's really funny is that he shows he really does care with the over agressive response relating to nothing. I don't think he gets it's nothing about fanboyism but about observing sales and the industry and he sees it as an "attack" on 360.
When it's really just observing a comapny getting beat by the own rules and goalposts it set up.
Legend himself is setting different goalposts because he isn't saying "Best games" but "Best third party games." Which in of itself is amusing. What's the difference between a good third party game and first party game?
A "real" gamer would just want the best games period and not worry about whether they were first or third party I'd think.
It's also silly to tie a consoles success to such a metric as you are really just deciding which console you liked best and declaring it the winner. It's the goal any gamer should have, but really it's not which console is best... it's what console is best for you.
To attribute this success globally let alone to said company or console is just outright stupid.
Besides... that's not even the way most gamers see it. Ask most people which was better PS1 or N64 and the vast majority will say PS1 despite N64 having the 4 or 5 best games of the generation.
