| heruamon said: Maybe WaW is a better game. To be honest, I'm quite surprised, as it seemed like every ps3 owner on this website was amped for R2...so I can't understand how WaW outsell it by such a large margin, but it goes to show the power of marketing. |
Whether or not WaW is a better game really has no impact on which game would sell more. There are games that can be worse than can sell more than R2 and there are games that are better that may not sell as well as R2.
Both games are good (metacriticed 84-87).
WaW is a WW2 shooter, R2 is a scifi shooter. I guess that's considered "generic" on both ends.
The difference is that Gamestop marketed the heck out of WaW as did Activision and Sony barely advertised through retail and television.
The brand name obviously has effect since CoD is more popular than Resistance. But at the end of the day, R2 just didn't get enough exposure from Sony. It's not an excuse, but it is what it is. Sony needs to pick up their game marketing or 3rd party developers might not want to become 2nd party the next go around, if you catch my drift.
