I think you need to read my post again, I said comment on Youtube, the amount that use Youtube is irrelavent to this discussion.

They just envy Nintendo's quality. None has and never will come close to it.

My point still stands, who here has never commented on a gaming video? Most gamers have I think. 

Sigh...I don't even know what to say to that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjBHFb0fZM

Only 0.5% of the people that watched this video actually commented on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9OMm7rfz98

Only 0.26% of people that watched this video commented on it.  That's most all right...just stop now.

Are we really still doing the "Nintendo rehashes old franchises with slight improvements" argument? That got old about ten years ago.

Anyway, from what I've seen of GOTY winners so far, Mario Kart 8 and Bayonetta 2 seem to be leading the charge, so OP's point is moot.

If there's a reason Nintendo does get snubbed, though, it's because game critics take themselves way too seriously. Or, in the case of GamesRadar, because Activision obviously paid them a lot of money.

Yeah, I don't believe that at all.  I mean, at all.  I just watched a bunch of Nintendo fans go ape shit because a reviewer gave Pokemon less than an 8.0 and said she didn't like the water levels.  It was an absolutely ridiculous display.  Now we have a group of Nintendo fans attacking Dragon Age and other games simply because some people enjoyed them more than Bayonetta 2.  Then there is the constant whining about how everyone picks on Nintendo and all the silly conspiracy theories and attempts to downplay EVERYTHING that doesn't come to Nintendo.  

More mature?  Holy downsberry talking cats.  My scoff meter is overflowing.

Get off your high horse >_>
No fanbase is mature. They're passionate fans. They get passionate.

High horse?  The hell you talking about?  I never said any fanbase is mature, did I?

Use =/= comment.

the majority of the public doesn't spend their time commenting on any videos, let alone gaming ones. I think you're mistaking guys on the forum as representing the masses. if that was the case bayonetta would be in the 1m mark by now and Ubisoft and EA would have died by now lol

I do however agree that it does reflect the hardcore fanbase to some extent, and yes Nintendo guys seem more chill and less whiny ;)

Does not matter.

Its a GOTY game that cant sustain 30 fps even tho the gameplay would profit from a smooth framerate.  If the gameplay would see no improvement with better FPS (like a turn based rpg) that would not be much of a problem but fluctuating framerate or low framerate kills precision of aiming. Therefore it cannot be better than a game that does not have this flaw or a similar flaw and obviously cannot be a 10/10 game.
I mean how is that even possible? Unless the industry and media changes their GOTY standards or remove the GOTY from that specific game I will cherry pick that every time I can.

If you make a game that has flawless or near flawless gameplay but would have monaural sound or be 320x240p it can still get goty as long as the gameplay (which is related to the word GAME) does not suffer. A shooter like battlefield with snipers etc would obviously suffer from low resolution. A game like Guacamelee not if the game would have visuals that have the low resolution in mind.