Wow, I'm incredibly glad I've garnered your criticism of my posting behavior on NeoGAF. I'm also impressed that you went into my posting history to discern what type of person I am. It is true, I go to NeoGAF to largely support the products I am genuinely interested in and engage in the community that I enjoy most. Both of these are overwhelmingly Nintendo related. I gush about the games I like and generally avoid the topics I can criticize. However, to make the logical leap that my forte is not criticism would be to make the same logical leap that modernists made over 200 years ago - that a part is wholly representative of the whole, and that one can "know" based on data collection alone.
It's not a "leap." It's an educated conclusion to the quality of your posts that is quite easy to discern if you read even a few of your posts. But there's also a search history that backs my point up quite well.
I also don't know why you seem to be irritated by this. People make judgments all the time about the people they're taking advice from or reading posts from. They do it about me all the time, about past mistakes I've made or what they deem as
excessive negativity. It's only natural to read someone's posts over a time and make an assessment of worth. If you are trying to determine whether someone's opinion is one you can value on a certain subject, it's only natural to try to ascertain whether or not those views are in any way biased by some particular behavior.
I frequently have people come to me and say "oh here's Amir0x being negative again about
everything, just ignore the point." In those individuals view, the criticism is from an insincere place, and that is a fair and honest judgment they have made based on how they have viewed my posts. I would argue my arguments are sincere, the same way you would argue yours are (and I would say that it's hard to think that yours aren't), but I hope this makes it easier to understand why if Gummb came to me and said "NINTENDOLAND is the greatest thing ever", I'd probably not take it very seriously. Alternatively, if you found a Nintendo product and started criticizing it, I might take it very seriously indeed - because I'd think to myself "
if even Gummb is criticizing it, it must be pretty bad."
My response to your unabashed and unqualified attack on Nintendo Land was a reaction to its complete lack of regard to the possibility that there are those who do enjoy it and think that it is a unique collection. I was simply countering your representation of Nintendo Land because I have a different perspective than you. To engage in a "logical" debate with you about the merit of a game that you clearly cannot tolerate playing would be unproductive. I am not here to change your mind, but rather attempt to express my own descriptions of the game I enjoy.
I'm just stating my opinion emphatically and passionately, it's not disregarding that there are other people out there that may like it. I just don't particularly think it's worth me qualifying my opinions with "Imo" because it's pretty self-evident, we're talking about videogames after all. But also specific to the question that made me say what I did, I was responding to the idea that 'no one who is informed about the differences would prefer the White model Wii U', and illustrating on what terms people would still want that white Wii U. Those terms were unique to my experience, but also clearly apply to many other people too.
Yes, I think there is nothing like it on the market. I've never played a game collection that can generate this many gameplay outcomes. I have never played a game collection where my mother can spend 4 hours drawing lines on a pad to move a character around to collect fruit only for my brother and I to turn around and seriously engage in a cooperative battle on separate screens while he sits and I walk around the room. I've never played a game collection where I can go from laughing hysterically with friends to intensely focused on a timed-test run of a DK course.
But there are plenty of things like that on the market. The only difference I can tell is that you have a controller screen there to trick you into thinking otherwise. You're describing plenty of products. Shit, you're describing plenty of products that even came out on the original Wii. Anyway, the rest of your post seems largely in line. There's nothing against my reasons for not liking Nintendoland, so it seems you've largely just decided the points aren't relevant to your reasons for loving it. Which brings us back to square one
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Since the release of Monster Hunter Portable 2, over 14 million PSPs has been sold in Japan. The MH games topped out at around 4-5 million each, but there is a lot of overlapping here (previous PSP owners who own MH2/G also bough MHP3rd). There is some overlapping on the hardware side too (new PSP-3000 model, new colors, limited editions, replacement units etc.), but i think these numbers shows that a lot of people who bought a PSP havnt bought any Monster Hunter games yet. There is also the used game sales of course, but since it is about millions of PSP, it would mean that millions of used MH copies would have to be sold for this to balance out, i dont think there have been sold that many used copies of MH games, but who knows.