PS3 fans ridiculously hyping ps3 games, whats wrong about it?

[Onyxmeth]

Kantor said:

Onyxmeth said:

CGI-Quality said:
@ death & Onyx

Be nice to the little Sack :,,,(

I have nothing against the Sack. You honestly can't say that advertising budget couldn't have been better spent on Resistance 2, Motorstorm Pacific Rift and SOCOM Confrontation though. If they were to have halfed the ad budget from LBP and spread it accordingly across the other three titles, I feel while LBP probably would have lost maybe half it's sales, the others would have increased greatly to the point that much more money would have been in Sony's pocket. Lose 800,000, and maybe gain 3 million. It was boneheaded for them to back the least marketable game in their Fall lineup as the headliner.

 

To be fair, LBP was the best game in the PS3's holiday lineup by far...

Not really marketable, not appealing to the PS3's audience, but definitely better than the others. SOCOM turned out to be buggy, Pacific Rift didn't do particularly well. Using metacritic as a source of reviewer opinion:

Resistance 2: 87

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift: 81

SOCOM: Confrontation: 62

LittleBigPlanet: 95

They made the mistake of thinking a great game will always sell great numbers. Having said that, though, for what LBP is, the fact that it will cross 2 million, and probably 3 million, is nothing short of astonishing.

OT: They hear a few people saying Killzone 2 will save the PS3, and then assume that nobody can like it because it's a great game, only because it will "save" their console. That's part of it. I think (see, it is in PS3 fans' vocabulary )a part of it is jealousy, the fact that they won't be able to play Killzone 2. Part of it is Sony hate.

 

Saying "Be fair" because LBP was the best game of the four is merely spin. I'm talking where advertising money should have gone and "the best game" isn't necessarily the most marketable. You don't need to give LBP the benefit of the doubt or anything because I'm not ragging on the game. I'm just saying it was in poor judgement to anchor the Fall lineup with your fourth most marketable game out of four games. You can't try to create some 2D platformer with creation tools and think this will gather that extended audience that goes all crazy over the little white box. LBP should have gotten a modest ad budget in the light of Sony's financial troubles and have it sell whatever it would have sold in favor of giving the major campaigns to Resistance 2 and Motorstorm, with a decent slice for SOCOM so those three could have raked in some more money. LBP should never have been outselling the two full price releases and probably should have been where SOCOM is right now while Motorstorm and Res 2 should be closer to where LBP is, or even further.