Do you feel this game is innovative?

[Slothy]

Innovation is such a bulltrout term to throw around anyway.

Someone please tell me that video is parody. Because I'm having trouble thinking of another time that someone so blatantly misinterpreted data so they could felate their pet console/company.

EDIT: I should probably explain myself a little bit more just to make sure there's some actual discussion about that video. He compares games based on sales and under the assumption that the only difference between them is how innovative they are.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that there's a lot more separating a title like Call of Duty from a game like Journey or any other small title known for being innovative. There'sdifferences in budget, marketing, whether it's part of a popular franchise with name recognition, whether it's from a major developer or publisher with an established reputation.

They also compare sales of games on consoles which sold around 20 million units to games on other consoles which sold more than five times that. They compare pack in titles to titles released well after a consoles release. There's just so many flaws in their simple analysis that it makes the entire video laughable.

I mean honestly, you can't compare the sales of Super Mario Bros. which was included with the majority of NES consoles ever sold to games like Mario Sunshine which was released well after launch for a console that didn't even sell as much as the original Mario Bros. did. Not even close in fact. Or how about comparing the sales of FFVI, a game released before FF titles being million sellers was even a thing, to series titles released after FFVII when the series was selling more by an order of magnitude at least. And he ignores the fact that some of those multimillion selling FF's released after FFVI were pretty damn innovative in their own right.