Good games should become big hits. If they don't, we won't have good games.
When gaming was smaller this might have been more true but it's certainly not true in the present.
In any other industry would you expect this? That if any book is good, it would be outselling Dan Brown? Is the best music at the top of the billboard chart? Is the best movie the highest grossing of the summer?
I agree it would be a better world and a better market if the best stuff really was at the top, but since it's not true in any other industry, I think it's silly to expect it to be true in games and just hope you will happen across the best ones.
I don't think the Avatar example is appropriate. Avatar is competing on the top and few films have a budget like it. There are ten of thousands of films in the same year that can't move higher because they can't be distributed in a better way.
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Good games should become big hits. If they don't, we won't have good games.
And they aren't; the market is too fragmented to support viral growth of good games. Especially true for smaller fragments like TBS.
When gaming was smaller this might have been more true but it's certainly not true in the present.
In any other industry would you expect this? That if any book is good, it would be outselling Dan Brown? Is the best music at the top of the billboard chart? Is the best movie the highest grossing of the summer?
Yes. This isn't even fantasy. Avatar was highest grossing and it was the best. We need more of that and less of me-too.
Sadly, even the newest Hobbit is me-too for itself.
I agree it would be a better world and a better market if the best stuff really was at the top, but since it's not true in any other industry, I think it's silly to expect it to be true in games and just hope you will happen across the best ones.
I don't think the Avatar example is appropriate. Avatar is competing on the top and few films have a budget like it. There are ten of thousands of films in the same year that can't move higher because they can't be distributed in a better way.
BTW, I think films like Russhmore (1998) and Festen (1998) are much better than Avatar. My complete ranking here: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0601133/ratings?start=1&view=comp...