mrstickball said:
What backlash are you referring to? The only thing I could think of is that since GTAIV went more "sim" as opposed to previous iterations being more far-fetched, it may have helped Saints Row 2, since their marketing campaign was based primarily about being a 'fun' copy of GTA. And for the record, Saints Row 2 is better in some ways than GTAIV. I have certainly enjoyed my time with Saints Row 2. At any rate, I think Saints Row 2 will be one of the (since it seems to be shaping up that way) suprise hits of late 2008 - Everyone is focusing on the "big" games, all the while Saints Row 2 has a great chance at selling 4 million copies combined on both systems, and become yet another Playstation 3 million seller....And has a very outside (but plausible due to PS3 sales in mainland Europe) shot at 2m. And GTAIV08 - I really doubt that logic. Although we're going to see the X360 version sell VERY well in comparison to the PS3 version, the fact remains that we've seen time and time again that very few games are biased toward one platform - Good games sell well...GTAIV, DMC4, and other PS2-centric titles all did very well on the X360, which should speak volumes about how the inverse can be true for Xbox-gone-Playstation games.
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Ye know the huge hardcore gamer backlash.....I mean I know no-one in my school or online who wasn't disappointed with that game,......just maybe 1 or 2 people.
& as you said it was because it wasn't "fun" like San Andreas....so what I meant to say is that will SR 4 gain sales by now being the GTA SA type "fun" game...it probably will.
4 Million combined seems unlikely....but if it does that'll be 1 million on Ps3 n 2 million on 360
If it gets to 2 million on Ps3....then 360 will be at atleast 3.5 million + ....making it a 5 + million seller...now that would be HUGE for the franchise.
