| onionberry said: Every entertainment medium has fanboys and fans who care about their idols or favorite product, but the only entertainment medium where I see that a lotof people care about sales is in the gaming industry. For example, you don't see Madonna fans saying that Lady gaga sucks because madonna has more money or more sales, or you don't see Cleveland fans saying that Lebron sells more tickets and Jerseys than kobe, so kobe sucks. They use the product or idol to fight "Lady gaga sings better or is more creative than Madonna" "Lebron is better right now, kobe is too old" "Inception is an amazing movie!, better than Avatar!! (avatar sold more)" etc. So why sales are so important to gamers? why gamers are so proud about sales? This is a charts website so I'm not specifically talking about vgchartz, just in general. Edit: why we use sales to fight? that's the real point of the thread. |
I don't know about anyone else but I care about sales because unlike some other things, sales affect the quality of the system's software that I purchased. If a console sells bad, the third party software is usually bad. So sales actually matter in that respect.
