In defense of Hoffman (lol, please shoot me), I think he was referring to platformers, not games in general. That's why he specifically mentioned Nintendo and Mario.
Still a stupid post, but you do have to admit 600k in America in a few months for a PS3-exclusive cutesy platformer is decent. It's not the huge selling holiday game Sony was looking for, but still. Resistance 2 imo is a bigger bomb, all things considered.