Arius Dion said:
Jon-Erich said:
Arius Dion said:
If software was so good, it'd be selling better than it is. To answer the ? No. It's still the laughing stock of this gen. |
Umm.....no. Quality software does not equel good sales. There are plenty of good games that received good reviews and were liked by gamers but completely bombed. A perfect example of this is Okami. In fact, I believe that was considered game of the year for 2006. It bombed and caused a studio to be shut down. Marketing is what sells a game and if a game is exclusive to a particular platform, then successful marketing of that platform is what will help sell games. In Okami's case, the PS2 was already very successful. Okami's marketing however was just okay or could even be considered poor when compared to the red carpet treatment Capcom would have given to a Resident Evil game or a Devil May Cry game. In Wii U's case, the games themselves aren't marketed badly, but the system is so nobody wants to buy it.
As for the laughing stock of this generation, I think all three companies deserve that prize. Nintendo can't seem to successfully market consoles even though they're geniuses at marketing handheld systems. Sony is having a lot of success with PS4 but still might go bankrupt in two years, and then the guy who publicly proclaimed that he would sell off the Xbox division if he were Microsoft's new CEO was just hired by Microsoft to run the Xbox division. It also seems like Xbox One will require some damage control PR at least several times a year from now on. So I don't think Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft can hold their heads high right now.
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So lemme get this straight, a games console is selling poorly because the hardware is such that nobody wants it. But the games on the console are great. Just not great enough to get ppl to want to buy the hardware?
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The days when that one great game could sell millions of consoles are over. Marketing is everything. Think about it this way. Why are people buying the PS4? There aren't that many standout exclusives. A lot of people seem to be complaining about PS4 games as oppose to praising them. Both Wii U and Xbox One actually had a better lineup of games this past holiday. Logically, the PS4 shouldn't be selling that well at all. It's selling because Sony made everybody want one. They marketed the PS4 successfully, something Nintendo failed to do with Wii U.
It's also ironic that I mentioned Okami since Super Mario 3D World was one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2013 but it couldn't sell too many Wii U's.
