| Esa-Petteri said: @donathos And yeah, no-one should be making excuses. Yet there are some people on these forums who make excuses like "it is a niche title, it is a new ip, it is a watered down version,it was not marketed properly, retailers underestimated the demand" and so on. |
One thing is to think that everygame ain't sell because this excuses and other is that some games ain't sell because of some reasons
"It's a niche title" This is true for No More Heroes, can you name many titles like this that have sell millions?.
"It is a new IP" Most of the time this is always something that reduce sells, why? because a new IP that isn't advertised has no hype and that means low sales (Again, the case of No More heroes and to say other Zack & Wiki)
"It is a watered down version" This have been a reason of bad sales on Wii games since the beginning of the generation, don't say that all the games that are released on the Wii (that are multiplat) have the same effort of the PS3/X360 ones, because that's NOT true, some ports are even on par with the PS2 games (COD:WaW is one example)
"It was not marketed properly" To be honest, i think this is one of the main reason of the sales of any game, if a game is not advertised, how is people supposed to know about it? Do you really think that most of the people look into websites and check it on the Internet just like you and me do it? The answer is NO. We have seen the wonders that MS have done with their commercials, do you really think that the sales of HALO and GeoW are just because are good games? When a game has a great advertising it can sell even if it's not a good game (look at Army of Two sales, from what i have heard this game isn't good enough to deserve it's sales, but the commercials were great)
