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Kasz216 said:

bbsin said:

Mr. Domino said:

DMeisterJ said:
Ooh, I forgot:

LBP will be huge.

 

LBP will not be huge.

 

If it follows the same line as other niche games (okami comes right to mind), extreme gamers that are found in forums will buy it and word of mouth it to other extreme gamers, but the general buying public wont know it exists.

 

Do you really think LBP is going to get the same or less amount of marketing as Okami? Sony is going to push this product hard.

Indeed the buying public will know it exists. The only question is... will they care.

Hope so. Games like this are great... and usually people never buy them becuase they're afraid of doing it themselves or something.

You can have the best game in the world and shout in peoples ears that it's the best game and the world... and it's still no gurantee it will get bought.

I mean hell, there are people who still think Barak Obama is a muslim despite the fact that the biggest story of his campaign was that his christian minister said a bunch of unpatriotic stuff.

LBP will get a lot of advertising... but less then Obama.

I think we can compare LBP to MGS4 soon saleswise. In genre they differ, but both where extremely hyped by the fans on the forums and in the media. And despite major advertising I don't think the general public will try something new like LBP.

My guess is a lot of frontloading, two weeks of awesome sales, the PS3 perhaps edging out the wii that week even but after that things will return to normal and sales will be roughly around MGS4's. Still a succes, but diversifying the demographic it will not.