Narfer on 24 March 2007
HappySqurriel said:
The standard strategy to release pretty garbage has (generally speaking) failed and is becoming a very bad approach; gamers are sticking to sequels and games with amazingly high review scores mainly because they can be easily mislead by screenshots and videos. Now this doesn't mean that good games are ensured success (look at the sales of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, Beyon Good and Evil and Psychonauts) but pretty trash doesn't perform all that well either
exactly. here is a great (and really long) article about that. everyone should at least read the first page.
http://thewiikly.zogdog.com/article.php?article=89&ed=10
A delayed game is good someday, a bad game is bad forever.
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