I agree, people can learn things from playing any realistic videogame, even if the application is limited. But would you say the same thing about a non-realistic game like Super Smash Bros?

Yes.  What makes you think it has to be realistic?  Smash Bros can teach you about simulated physics about just as much as a game like Tekken can teach you about Martial Arts.

Also? The sentence before was an argument by itself?

How can you make that statement?! Ok, I will give you the chance of showing evidence about that. Do you have it?

What difference do you make between digital and non-digital?

2D and 3D are a matter of semantics?! Are you feeling ok?

This doesn't vilify anyone and you can see it the way you want it. But facts are facts, that's what the OP is focused on. And the fact is that Nintendo games, in general, shifted to vocal music later than their competitors.

How do you show to any person that it's "fairly undeniable" that Nintendo puts a lot of effort into their soundtracks?

I disagree. That is also learning about the art.

"To learn about" may refer to anything that is related to knowledge, regardless whether it can be applied or not.

"To learn" something (in this case a martial art) has a narrower meaning. It means that your mind and your body learn how to apply moves, perform katas and use the technique on fights.

And yet I would say you can learn on videogames something useful (to apply) about martial arts that you can't on books and maybe that would be even hard to learn practicing the martial art on real-life. Would this tiny piece of knowledge be enough to learn the martial art? Not at all. But it is already something on top of your already existing knowledge. I think the problem is that you took this as black & white and it isn't.

But none of those are Nintendo games, are they?

Evolved: vocal music has instruments and voice, and it appeared later in both History of Music and History of Videogaming ; instrumental-only music, as the name itselft tells, has only instruments.

Complex: yes, it has everything instrumental-only music has and more.

Superior: no, that's already about tastes.

Harder to make: theoretically yes, meaning that the same music with the same instruments and the same conditions is harder to make when you add voice on top of that.

What it would prove: it doesn't prove anything besides the facts themselves (that most of Nintendo games shifted to vocal music later than their competitors), it only suggests that Nintendo wasn't willing to make the same effort and that it was forced by others rather than forcing them to evolve.

1. If you would like me to get into the actual definition of the word evolution and all the subtext included in it I will... do you honestly want to get into that debate (turns out I went into a bit of it anyways, oops)? For example, everything that is around today has been "evolving" for the same amount of time and as such, everything as it is today is equally evolved. Therefore, you cannot say that one thing today is more evolved than another thing today because that doesn't actually make any sense. If you start getting into metrics for calculating change, you are getting into some very fuzzy and subjective stuff and thus cannot be argued as fact...

2. Its logic...I have no way of looking into a chronological history of video game music and looking into all the games created by everybody, seeing what the first game that used music with recorded vocals is and comparing it to the first music that used recorded instruments. Think about it for a second, both recorded vocals and recorded instruments were not able to be played until the technology allowed it and the technology allowed both of those to occur at the same time (because both are recorded in the same way). See my below statement about digital music.

3. Digital music is very different than recorded instruments. For one, digital music is created by a computer vs instruments being recorded and played back. I think the difference here is pretty obvious. Additionally, changing from digitally created music to recorded music happened when the technology allowed it to happen.

4. For someone who frequently accuses people of misreading their quotes, you tend to do a lot of misreading. I said that the 2D vs 3D evolution debate is a matter of semantics, not that 2D vs 3D is a matter of semantics. This essentially means that the debate is centered around the definition of evolution, which by its actual definition, implies that everything that is around today is equally evolved. Applying that to video games, you would say that every 2D game that is around today is just as evolved as the 3D games that are around today. To say otherwise would be making a value judgement and as such cannot be said to be fact or truth or objective.

5.I would like some examples of the competors that used (non digitized) vocals in songs. I once again have no way of looking into every video game song ever made but on what basis are you making these claims? I can think of Nintendo games that used vocals in the GC era, though I haven't played many N64 games...

Also, Anybody who knows anything about music could tell you that this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqEfB6IYmE) was no simple feat, and definitely not objectively more "simple" than this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0hV3dea9g).

Good grief. No, you won't learn much from playing Smash Bros. and neither will you from playing Soul Calibur, King of Fighters, Tekken and other fighting games. You might learn the names of a few moves and how a sword looks when you swing it but if you really want to learn about martial arts playing a video game is a waste of time. Get some good books on the subject instead, or watch TV. They are fighting games for crying out loud, not fighting simulators. They are made to entertain, not teach.
Let's also stop this nonsense about "realistic" fighters being superior. Games like Street Fighter, King of Fighters and Guilty Gear are highly regarded among fans of fighting games despite being cartoony and unrealistic.

That would make MIDI more evolved in the aspect of history. Also, you can find plenty of music that is more complex  using only instruments than vocal and instrument. Unless you think rap and pop is more complex that classic works. Complexity is fairly subjective in itself

@Evolved:  Doesn't make sense to say "evolved."  Singing has existed before instruments of music.

@Complex:  Nope.  Just having vocals doesn't make it have as much as instrumental-only music at all.  The only way you can say that is if it's an instrumental version of the same song that originally has vocals.

@Harder to make:  That's just like saying it's harder to make a song with piano ensembles in it.  Because if the song is the same with all the same conditions and whatever, adding a piano to the mix would make it "harder."  Your logic is weird.

@What it would prove:  What you said is called "jumping to conclusions"  Nothing shows that anyone is forced to use vocals in music for video games.