The majority of people on this site really don't know much about the games industry, they just go out and buy their Madden and Halo, the big name games, and for some reason think that because the box says Sony on it, it must be good. It's really odd to go to all the big gaming boards and see opinions of things, and then come here and it's a completely different opinion, because the majority here are casual gamers.
Example: BioShock. Every gaming site is giving it high 9's and 10's, gamerankings.com has it as the second best game of all time, you'd think it would be an easy sell to people here, but nope. Instead people say it isn't as good as Gears, which is nothing like BioShock. It's like saying "You know, I don't really want to try this orange, because it doesn't look as good as this apple over here."