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Forums - Sales Discussion - God of War Ascension surpasses Gears of War Judgement in global total sales

sales2099 on 11 July 2013

Both are nothing to be proud of.

Thing is, MS doesn't own Gears, GOW is Sonys 3rd string IP, behind Uncharted and GT.



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wolfofthepack on 11 July 2013

both of them are garbage imo clearly other people tink so when u compare the sales of there previous instalments. I forced my self to finish gow3 and the story of gears was complete



Adobo on 11 July 2013

Gears Judgement for $60
God of War: Ascension $40


yeah grats to Sony Cultist.

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Signalstar on 11 July 2013

This is what happens when you milk franchises. Beyond a trilogy it is really hard to maintain quality and a coherent story.



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foodfather on 11 July 2013
JustThatGamer said:
foodfather said:

I thought GOWJ was fantastic. Best gunplay in a 3rd person shooter. GOWA looked crap to me, but I'm sure fans loved it.

Both games seem highly underrated to me and deserve much better sales and fan support. 

As for the GOWJ vs GOWA argument, GOWJ is a spin off and a prequel, doesn't even have the same main playable character so it seems to have sold according to its purpose. GOWA on the other hand was hyped a lot more and advertised a lot as well, I'm sure Sony are disappointed in the sales.

Also, GOWA hit the bargain bin a lot quicker than than GOWJ, I'm sure Microsoft have made more money on this than Sony. 


GoW:A is the third prequel in a series of 6 games and had mostly negativity surrounding it until a month before release due to the marketing focusing on multiplayer. It wasn't hyped, believe me, I tried to hype the game up and convince people it would be awesome but nobody listened and they were right not to, I knew deep down it would disappoint but I tried to stay optimistic.

I'm sure both Sony & Microsoft are disappointed. Also GoW:A hit the bargain bin 2 weeks before GeoW:J (sub £20 is bargain bin considering how recent the games are, no?) but it had multiple SKU's with the collector's & special editions which probably made up for the standard edition dropping in price quicker. Considering this and the fact GoW:A is under-tracked in the US by at least 49K based on its 1st month NPD & its pre-orders were 8x better in Brazil than GoW3 which sold 30K in its 1st month so it's other sales are under-tracked too, I bet God of War: Ascension has made more money for Sony than Gears of War: Judgment did for Microsoft but neither party will be particularly happy with such small profit from both games.

Some valid points there indeed, but I think you are understating how much and how quickly GOWA went down in value. Within 3 weeks of release, the game was widely available for less than £30. Withing 4 week, you can have picked it up for around £23, againly, from a lot of major retailers. GOWJ didn't do that low that quickly. 

And remember, games only go on sale quickly if the shimpents are too high. This is for the UK ocf, I'm not sure what the situation is like in the US. 



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Carl on 11 July 2013

Fully expected Judgment to out-leg Ascension. I think I even got into an argument with someone here about it.

I was wrong. Clearly.



                            

Mr Puggsly on 11 July 2013
Michael-5 said:

That's your opinion, but IMO pretty much everything that made Gears of War a good game has been stripped from this game. There is no sense of desperation, the plot is paper thin, and actually comical (why are they trialing Baird when people are dying in the courtroom due to the firefight outside?). There is no Horde mode (well what's left is butchered), the game only comes with 4 maps, and....well it's pretty bad.

The gameplay is fine, but everything is is just crap, and yea, like you said, it's an unnecessary addition to the franchise. The plot is.,...just meaningless, and bad.

Contradiction alert!

"IMO pretty much everything that made Gears of War a good game has been stripped from this game."

"The gameplay is fine..."

I'm disappointed with Judgement as well. But the campaign is still pretty fun even if the story wasn't great and I played a good numbers of hours with the multiplayer. Why? Because the gameplay was fine.



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Boutros on 11 July 2013

I have played Ascension a little and I really don't understand why it's rated so much lower than God of War 3. Is it that God of War 3 is overrated?



DeadBigfoot21 on 12 July 2013

God of war: A was soooooo boring that i couldnt even finish it. I havent played judgement but i will.



Michael-5 on 14 July 2013
Mr Puggsly said:
Michael-5 said:

That's your opinion, but IMO pretty much everything that made Gears of War a good game has been stripped from this game. There is no sense of desperation, the plot is paper thin, and actually comical (why are they trialing Baird when people are dying in the courtroom due to the firefight outside?). There is no Horde mode (well what's left is butchered), the game only comes with 4 maps, and....well it's pretty bad.

The gameplay is fine, but everything is is just crap, and yea, like you said, it's an unnecessary addition to the franchise. The plot is.,...just meaningless, and bad.

Contradiction alert!

"IMO pretty much everything that made Gears of War a good game has been stripped from this game."

"The gameplay is fine..."

I'm disappointed with Judgement as well. But the campaign is still pretty fun even if the story wasn't great and I played a good numbers of hours with the multiplayer. Why? Because the gameplay was fine.

Well Judgement is only fine, Gears 1-3 was awesome.

CGI-Quality said:
Boutros said:
I have played Ascension a little and I really don't understand why it's rated so much lower than God of War 3. Is it that God of War 3 is overrated?

Not even close (to me, God of War III is UNDERrated). Ascension is good, the combat is refined, but there are some steps back that it took. Of course it couldn't have the strengths of III's concluding tale, but it could have been a little better, I felt.

We have very opossing opinions on the matter. I think God of War 3 is only of the most over-rated games ever. It was just so excessively violent, and I felt the plot was a bit funny compared to the first 2. I think Bayonetta is a better hack and Slash game, Devil May Cry 3 as well (not sure about the new ones).



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