jimmay said:
Talk about completly missing the point, the fact is people can like whatever they want to like, i never said any different. To put it simply just because somebody likes something the best doesn't mean it actually is the best. For decades gamers have accepted that the average review score from professional reviewers is a very good indicator of how good a game is. Every generation without fail the console with the most top rated games is the console that wins the generation. This has now gone all back to front because casual gamers have come along and they don't have a clue what a good game is. Lets use motor racing as an example. Fans of motor racing like the skill of the drivers, they like the technical knowledge of building a car, they like the excitement of overtaking, cornering, quick pit stops and team tactics. A good race is one that contains all of those things. Now lets say their is a new casual crowd that has come along to watch racing, they don't really care about the things i mentioned above, all they care about is how many crashes their are, also because they don't really care that much about racing they can't be bothered to watch an hour long race, they can only be bothered with a 20 minute race. So yet again the casual crowd don't have a clue about what makes a good race just like they don't have a clue what makes a good game. A race with poor drivers, poorly built cars, no overtaking, amature pit stops and bad team tactics is a terrible race no matter how you slice it, if in that race their were a bunch of spectacular crashes the the casual crowd loved does that now make the race a good one??? Hell no, it was still a terrible race with a bunch of casual people with poor taste completely oblivious. |
You've got the relationship backwards ...
The PS2 launched with a remarkably lackluster line-up which was noticeably worse than the Dreamcast but sold (amazingly) well anyways. As the generation progressed its massive sales ensured that (pretty much) any third party game of note would be released on the PS2. In other words, when you look back at a generation the system that sold the best ended up having the most highly reviewed games.
Just look at the Nintendo DS vs. the PSP ... Currently (based on gamerankings or metacritic) the PSP has far more highly rated games but the Nintendo DS has over 100 announced games to be released in 2008 whereas the PSP has less than 50, and in 2009 and 2010 the Nintendo DS' releases will outpace the PSP's releases by an even greater margin; when you look back at this generation of handhelds in 2011 the Nintendo DS will (easily) have way more high quality games simply because it ended up having more games released for it (because it sold better)