LogFAQs > #937949667

zebatov posted...

GTA5 should be the winner, hands-down.

What, because it sold better than anything else? That's not really how people's favourites work.

wwinterj25 posted...

It actually does regardless of your personal opinion in most cases. If it was a bad game then it wouldn't sell as it wouldn't be popular. I get not everyone likes everything but to suggest GTA V isn't a good game is factually wrong.

Eh, that's debatable. Being genuinely bad will hurt sales, yes, but a game doesn't have to actually be *good* to sell a lot. Just marketed well and enjoyable enough that people are willing to buy it and spend some time playing it. This is especially true for games that have a significant culture built up around them, such as CoD, where people buy the latest entries to play with their friends regardless of how good those entries are. And when it comes to launch day sales in particular, a bad game can absolutely see excellent launch sales if prior entries in the series have been good enough for people to trust that it will be worth buying, though those sales will drop off even more quickly than sales usually do as word of mouth gets around, and subsequent entries' sales will suffer.

Basically, selling a lot of copies means a game isn't bad enough to hurt its sales, yes, but selling more copies than another game doesn't mean it's better than that game.

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