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OTBWY on 06 January 2018
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BraLoD said:
OTBWY said:

Obviously you don't care about what I actually wanted to say, but it comes down to accepting that two of the top games last year were SMO and BotW. This is not me saying it, but a majority of review outlets. Now when you take out the obvious platform oriented websites (and those exist, both for Playstation and Nintendo), then my point becomes more clear. PS oriented sites have a more clear choice, while Nintendo oriented sites had not.

Zelda is cannibalizing SMO Gotypicks. Plain and simple.

First don't get personal, do I even know you?

Second, Zelda shouldn't be cannibalizing anyone picks on a critic envyronment, if Mario and Zelda where similarly critically successful this kind of disparity is impressive to say the least.

I don't agree or disagree with anything about those games quality or success, the point is how can games similarly acclaimed be cannibalizing the other simply because of the platform it"s on or the company that made it to professional critics? I completely understand it on a fanbase level as forums as I said, that's what happens, yeah, but not about professional critics.

Zelda was clearly the favourite pick this year, the problem is a fanbase effect spreading into a professional envyronment.

If Zelda is winning easy and that's cannibalizes Mario, that's concerning, because if there was no Zelda than Mario would be getting all of those instead, why it's not getting a good spread anyway?

Again, on a professional envyronment the platform or company a game is bound to should mean absolutely nothing on a professional envyronment.

I seriously hope there is no actual cannibalization happening and just plain and simple randomness logic math is subjected based on subjective values, which is exactly what I think is happening, the factor of mathematics representing values to subjective things, like games or movies scores.

Anyway, I expected Zelda to win easily, it was definitely the game that looked more like the champ this year reception-wise, and that's completely devoid of the scores value, a lot of people REALLY loved it that much, that's about it, IMO.

Nowhere did I get personal. I only said that you didn't care about what I actually was trying to say. That's why I elaborated. There is no need to make it a wall of text argument, it's pretty simple to explain.

If these titles did not release the same year, it would dominate that year with no competition. If Zelda didn't exist and only SMO released, it would be in BotW's position right now. The only difference is that BotW is the better and more memorable game. It was simply the best launch title of a console that released the same year. That is most likely what happened across all non-platform specific outlets. If you actually carefully look at these outlet's list, you will see that SMO is a close second. It's just that little bit of extra that tipped it over to BotW IMO. Add to that platform oriented websites, and it starts to make sense (with HZD being the obvious choice for PS sites etc).