Not Practising Dignity, or a terrible way to start off a post about NPD Chart discussion

So October's National Product Diary results were published yesterday. The thing's become my menstrual cycle. All month I'm feeling nice and chipper, and then that beast comes and makes everything feel like cold, emotionless chalk.

It's not the results really. It's the bickering and possible ammunition it provides to rage-a-holics the world over.

I mean, is it ever right to talk about a game's financial successes? Little Big Planet has had glowing reviews and is now constantly bolstered by a thriving group of gamers. Why should I care if it only sold 200,000 copies? I've done my part. There's no reason to use this for or against Sony and the PS3. Just go out and tell your friends to go buy it.

What strikes me as odd are the facts people choose to omit. The big thing right now is Little Big Planet's possible "flopping". Third from the bottom of the top ten list, Media Molecules ode to Michel Gondry only sold 215,000 copies during four days of sale. But yeah, that's super terrible. Close the servers guys, this fish is cooked dead.

Lets not give a poo about who's on top of the charts. if we've learned anything, it's that sales don't make a good game. If I want good games, I'll buy the ones I think I should. I'll let the masses buy their movie tie-ins, and I'll wait in the wings, enjoying Uncharted. And when the stars align, and a game like Fable 2 becomes a critical and commercial success, even better. But lets not rub that in someone's face, because honestly, we're talking about video games here. And no matter how much I love them, I'm not going to call someone names over them.

Unless they make fun of what I like. Then they're obviously wrong. The charts prove it.