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Epic_Bro_Fist on 08 May 2012
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Prince of Persia was the wrong franchise and doesn't have the marketability to become a household name. I am talking about names synonymous with a brand. 

I was giving Prince of Persia as an example to a video game series that didn't make bank even though it had a succesful hollywood movie. 



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WiiBox3 on 08 May 2012
Epic_Bro_Fist said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Prince of Persia was the wrong franchise and doesn't have the marketability to become a household name. I am talking about names synonymous with a brand. 

I was giving Prince of Persia as an example to a video game series that didn't make bank even though it had a succesful hollywood movie. 


I am still hoping they will do a follow up the the 2008 Prince of Persia.



VGKing on 08 May 2012
Ji99saw said:
Sony's fanbase isn't backing all of the exclusives they have for some strange reason.


Of course we're not. We can't buy all PS3 exclusives. 
There's so many options so we have to pick and choose.



VGKing on 08 May 2012
d21lewis said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
d21lewis said:
Uncharted: Great franchise with high production values. Got great sales.

Killzone/Resistance: Average FPS games. Got average sales.

Heavy Rain: Unique franchise got better than expected sales.

inFamous: Mediocre game. Got mediocre sales.

LBP1: Unique and fun. Good sales.

LBP2: More of the same. Weaker sales.

I know Sony releases a lot of games that are only on Playstation. Sony fans hype them up but, from my experience, most of the time, these games just are not worthy of that hype. You want to know why Sony's first party games don't sell as well as you'd like? It's because third party games are often better. Would you want to buy inFamous 2 or Batman Arkham City? Killzone or Call of Duty? It's good that Sony tries to fill out its library but if they aren't the best of the best, what's the point? The games sell right about where I think they should.



InFamous is the second best superhero franchise on the market. The only Super Hero franchise that is better is batman, but InFamous has better cinematics and set pieces.

LBP 2 was not more of the same. Have you played the two games?  Killzone is an above average shooter in an age where shooters thrive on another console. Killzone 2 averaged a 91 and 3 a 84 which is far from bad when you average out the scores.  Little Big Planet 2 averaged 91 Metacritic score, and Little big planet  scored a 95. PS3 exclusives on average out score the multiplatform competition and generally have more exclusives than 360 in a given year on a first party front.

Own both LBP 1 and 2 at this very moment.  Bought Killzone 3.  Took it back and traded it in for Red Dead Redemption after that first stage where I piloted a mech in an abandoned city. Played Resistance 1 on a friends PS3 right at launch.  Didin't like it at all.  Cousin gave me Resistance 2 (made a thread about it called "The Mother Load"--his PS3 broke and I got a bunch of games from him temporarily).  Played the first stage.  Didn't like it. Got Infamous 1 the week it came out.  Still own it.  Never beat it because it was boring and repetitive.  I never said anything about the 360.  Where did that come from? 

Anyway, I guess I was wrong.  PS3 games are awesome and addictive and should have sold better by word of mouth.  360 sucks.


wow you give up pretty fast on games. After the first level? wow.
You have repetitive games? I guess you don't play online games like Call of Duty either?



VGKing on 08 May 2012
Epic_Bro_Fist said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Prince of Persia was the wrong franchise and doesn't have the marketability to become a household name. I am talking about names synonymous with a brand. 

I was giving Prince of Persia as an example to a video game series that didn't make bank even though it had a succesful hollywood movie. 


Prince of Persia games sold well. They were just milking it too much.
By the time the movie came out, the franchise was already dead.



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BenVTrigger on 08 May 2012

Sony is known for its characters?



Soundwave on 08 May 2012
RolStoppable said:
BenVTrigger said:
Sony is known for its characters?

Yes, namely for Kratos and the guy from God of War whose name escapes me at the moment.

 

Don't forget the cars from Gran Turismo ;)

I actually think Sony has good B-tier characters. They'd compliment Nintendo's franchise perfectly with IP like Uncharted and God of War able to get an older audience and things like Little Big Planet fitting in just fine with Nintendo's other IP. 

I kinda think in the long run, especially if both companies continue to have a rough go of it, a Nintendo-Sony alliance would make a lot of sense and appeal to virtually every demographic of gamer. 

Honestly I think a Nintendo-Sony joint console instead of the Wii U or PS4 that we're going to get would outsell every system in history (including the PS2) and both would then make a fortune off licensing fees from third parties. 



Jay520 on 08 May 2012
RolStoppable said:
BenVTrigger said:
Sony is known for its characters?

Yes, namely for Kratos and the guy from God of War whose name escapes me at the moment.



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Jay520 on 08 May 2012
Soundwave said:

Don't forget the cars from Gran Turismo ;)



What type of cheap shot...

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d21lewis on 08 May 2012

@VGKing (posting from my phone--if I quote, it mighht reset), yeah. I do give up on games rather quickly. I intend to go back and replay them a lot of the time but that doesn't always happen. Some games hool me right from the start. Some games bore me witht he tutorial. I try to give them all a chance but often, I buy 3, 4, or more games at once. One game always stands out and the rest get put on "the shelf".

It's not just PS3/Sony games. For example, I got the Witcher 2 on 360. I can see it's a good game and I wanted to love it but the few times I played it, it buried mme in information and bored me. It's currently on the shelf until I finish Xenoblade on the Wii. Even Skyward Sword got ignored for a month while I played Batman and Saints Row 3.



With Resistance, it was somebody else's game. They tried to wow me but I'm not really an FPS an. I did love Halo 3 so much that I went back and bought Halo 1 and 2 but that's rare. I don't really play online much these days, either. Maybe once every few weeks