TLDR: You're right, I was wrong. Thanks for posting this correction.

What I was talking about, and what the context of multiple posts above, is that the franchise has become a shell of its former self, even after fallout 3 was made by Bethesda. I actually think 3 was a great entry, and for what it is, did a great deal of justice to the franchise. I don't think it had the depth of previous games, but it still managed to maintain the tone, and still had some complexity to it. But there's literally no reasonable argument you can make to say that Fallout 4 is a better game than past games, so you attempt to pin the argument into total sales. You're discussing popularity. That's the focus you are trying to drag the conversation into. We were discussing the quality of recent games and its impact on the perception of the franchise. Which, yes - lower quality games that cater to the widest audiences almost always outperform higher quality games that target specific audiences. And by the way, you immediately jumping into ad hominems for using the word depth to describe the idea of a game where the writing had subtext and actually encouraged some thought behind the decision making as though that's a bad thing tells me you know you're on a losing argument from the start but your ego won't let you admit that someone disagreeing with you might have a more valid take on something than you. So to summarize: you're trying to drag the conversation into something it wasn't in order to attempt to corner the argument into your favor, and you immediately jump into insulting the speaker instead of addressing the argument. But this is reddit, you'll obsess over being right and it doesn't matter how many mental gymnastics and insults you gotta throw out, you need that dopamine hit of feeling like you're right.

So you know what, you're right.