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"Shenmue is the same. It’s an okay title but outside of Japan, how many millions of units will it sell? Not very many.”

Most developers in the industry would kill to have a game selling "not many millions".



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JEMC said:

"Shenmue is the same. It’s an okay title but outside of Japan, how many millions of units will it sell? Not very many.”

Most developers in the industry would kill to have a game selling "not many millions".

This.



You know it deserves the GOTY.

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I guess Uncharted 4 is gonna flop then



The thing here is that i dont think they're expecting them to sell like uncharted



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Why does everything that doesnt sell 10s of millions of unit end up called Niche?



The Last Guardian needs to sell well to justify the length of its development. That timeframe is insane. Square wants Final Fantasy to sell 10 million copies and the timeframe of development was insane.



To be fair, other than "the internet hype" they have nothing else going for them. So that's like 1k sales. Where does the rest come from?



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From purely a sales perspective, he's not wrong.



He might mean lame as in lame sellers, but still we really need to stop feeding already. Complaining about him wont make him go away, only ignoring him will.