Are there niches where even the most outstanding games heaped with critical praise will never sell well? I certainly think so. Adventure and puzzle titles are prime examples; even the best ones sell fewer copies than a mediocre first-person shooter, real-time strategy or role-playing offering. For example, Microids' Syberia will never be on a best-seller list, and Microsoft's Pandora's Box from a few years ago also had no hope. In other words, the gap between quality and popularity is accentuated in some of the less mainstream categories of recreational offerings, whereas in the mainstream categories, the gap might at least have the possibility of being smaller.