I think that if you need judges it shouldn't be considered a sport since the result depends on someones opinion...
I guess that rules out hockey, football, basketball, baseball and any other game that requires an umpire/referee.
The reality is, in any SPORT, you always need some sort of officiating non-biased person to help determine the winner. Just because I don't care to watch ribbon-twirling or women's basketball doesn't mean that they're not sports. Kudos to the "Olympics folks" (for lack of a better term) for attempting to make the scoring system more fair.
Does anyone else agree that it's not just about game sales? Console sales, yes because if you're the general consumer, you're not buying three systems, you're choosing one gaming system to own for the next 3-6 years. Hopefully, you've done enough research to know that your "type" of game is going to be released repeatedly for the system.
The real point is so what if you own 20 Xbox 360 games? Do you play them anymore? To me, the only reason you have more than 6 titles is because you get tired of a game too quickly. The quality of the game has to be higher, with more replay value being key. I went through Resident Evil 4 ~6 times and completed all Ada missions and challenges before calling it quits with the game. Going through a really fun game in 10 hours and letting it collect dust after that is not my idea of a fantastic game. Focus on quality of games, not quantity of them.
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I think that if you need judges it shouldn't be considered a sport since the result depends on someones opinion...
I guess that rules out hockey, football, basketball, baseball and any other game that requires an umpire/referee. The reality is, in any SPORT, you always need some sort of officiating non-biased person to help determine the winner. Just because I don't care to watch ribbon-twirling or women's basketball doesn't mean that they're not sports. Kudos to the "Olympics folks" (for lack of a better term) for attempting to make the scoring system more fair.
Does anyone else agree that it's not just about game sales? Console sales, yes because if you're the general consumer, you're not buying three systems, you're choosing one gaming system to own for the next 3-6 years. Hopefully, you've done enough research to know that your "type" of game is going to be released repeatedly for the system.
The real point is so what if you own 20 Xbox 360 games? Do you play them anymore? To me, the only reason you have more than 6 titles is because you get tired of a game too quickly. The quality of the game has to be higher, with more replay value being key. I went through Resident Evil 4 ~6 times and completed all Ada missions and challenges before calling it quits with the game. Going through a really fun game in 10 hours and letting it collect dust after that is not my idea of a fantastic game. Focus on quality of games, not quantity of them.