Then I guess Halo, GT, and mario are trash then ? 

If the masses were truly stupid then why do they also dissociate from the bad games you hardcore gamers hate then ? Because much like you they think the game is likely trash like Too human or duke nukem forever.

Dude, seriously, let it go. The quality = sales argument has been discussed to death and most people agree that there is no direct correlation between the two. Keeping up with the Kardashians, Jersey Shore and many other trash shows have/had huge ratings and quality shows like The Good wife don't.

Pupeteer bombed this year (so did Tearaway) and people who've played it including reviewers agree that it's an awesome game. Critics agree that the latest COD is not a good enough games and still sells more than almost any other game not called GTA. No one is saying that if a game is popular, it has to be trash, but if a game doesn't, it's due to a great number of reasons and quality is only one of the possible ones.

Why did Mario Galaxy sell that many units and its sequel  sold so much less? Was it quality? Accoring to critics, not really. There were clearly other contibuting factors. Also, the bLazblue series is contantly praised for its quality, but its sales are no much for Street fighter or Tekken?  Hell even PSASBR sold better than any Blazblue game and that game was considered medicore at best. Difference? PSASBR had much better marketing and included many popular characters. I personally loved it but bought it for Nariko alone.

Avatar is by no means the best movie ever made,  yet it made more money than any other movie ever released. People kept going back to the theaters to watch it and had to pay a premium price. Does that make it the best movie ever made or simply a popular movie? Simply put, no.

kinect would have not sold anywhere near the same because it's obvious that microsoft is not committed in giving a good influx of software. Again I ain't no flip flopper if you knew the definition of a "fad". Kinect fits perfectly in this sense compared to the WII. Once again you have yet to understand the "SOFTWARE SELLS HARDWARE". A "fad" is something that dies very quickly and the WII does not meet this criteria. The move failed because the software on it was trash. It's as simple as that. The masses have more than one ways to tell if software is trash. How else would minecraft have set the world on fire from such a small developer ? The masses have others like them to see if the software is good. When a small part of the masses buy a certain game they test it to see if it's good. When they go on about raving it's quality to other parts of the masses the quality of the game may spread like wild fire and quality is once again being redefined and realized at the same time. WII party and WII Fit did not light up the charts immediately but it's accumulated sales over the long run shows that it was a wuality software defined by the masses. The reason why the next iteration fell flat was because they deemed these games as not worthy of spreading through the mouth. 

Do you even read any of my points ? Were just going around in circles. 

Suit yourself to use the hardcore base as a measure for quality. 

Dude, who said anything about hardcore base? I'm talking about general public and critics here. But suit yourself. Guess it's one of those days that everyone else is wrong and you're right, sicne they disagree with you. 

Do you honestly think that critics = general public ? I think were done here for the most part. 

dude look at all the best selling games on consoles, including COD modern warefare, which is when the franshise exploded, if you remove the fads, then yes.

What are the fads then ?