Not a chance..... Sorry.

Thank you sir, RPG Historian has spoken. The last guardian is my most anticipated game for 2010!

Ah but you can see in recent Zelda's outselling Ico, that the market still prefers Zelda to team Ico, Windwaker outsold Ico, twilignt princess outsold shadow of the collosus, see your argument is flawed in that you fail to understand that reviews are merely an opinion, and opinions differ, when the market chooses one game over another your have the makret preference being revealed and sales are the objecitve measure of that preference

Agree, the Zelda series is getting worse and worse.

The order of dates is not arbitrary. We defined dates so that we can always say which one comes before or after another. The fact that they map physical of philosophical entities is irrelevant to this discussion, we just need to accept the same convention to perform logic on them.

But you're going further and further into hostile territory. Stick to the Stephen King example and tell me that you think that the bestsellers' top 10 maps the quality of the literary work.

and market preference has nothing to do with quality in general. Yes reviews are opinions, but aggregate those all together and you have something that's probably around the quality of the actual game for most reasonable people.

You also keep ignoring the flaws with your comparing sales to quality. What about the fact that Zelda got more marketting, or that Zelda was a more established franchise when Ico came out, or the difference between available games on the PS2 and Gamecube that might make one more likely to notice a new Zelda than notice Ico on the PS2? All of these things affect sales, and you just ignore them and look at two numbers and denote one as better than the other.

I would say that's it's how much the game is revered among the people who have played it moreso than it is simply how much it has sold.

A difficult thing to measure, I'm sure, but the correlation between sales and quality isn't near strong enough to talk in absolutes, as mentioned already by werekitten.

If we were to do so, Mariah Carey's Music Box would be considered better than every single Beatles album.

OT: I agree with Benga, this thread is pretty damn funny.

I don't read stephen King so I can't comment personally, obviously the market likes King's books

Actually our definition of dates is arbitrary, because you cannot take me to see yesterday, or even prove that there was a yesterday, we have created an arbitrary system to work within the confines of what we refer to as memory.

No, because many Wii games get poor reviews but are bought in the millions, you are assuming that the reviewers opinion is reasonable, when in fact as the market showm they are often the odd men out when it comes to the Wii.

Ah but when Zelda first came out there was no established franchise and yet it sold, if Ico didn't get marketing well that probably shows they didn't have any faith in Ico.

Ok lets take Wii and PS3 and 360 as an example, 360 and PS3 both had marketing and even came out before or at the same time as Wii, yet Wii thundered ahead, even as reviewers argued that Wii was not as good as 360 and PS3, but the fact is the market preferred Wii and Wii has dominated to this day

Which is all fact, but then you take the logic leap that this means that the Wii is better.  What about the price at launch, the Wii's popularity among talk shows?  There are always a plethora of things that affect sales that have nothing to do with quality.