| --OkeyDokey-- said: People are calling Resistance 2 a flop now? It's only selling about 3 times faster than the original and from what I've heard, it's a much better game. |
Here you go. I'll highlight key phrases and do note this guy's opinion counts because he's in charge of marketing.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/resistance-2-is-sonys-answer-to-gears-2
Sony expects Resistance 2 to go "toe-to-toe against Gears of War 2" in the battle for your money this Christmas, according to US VP of product marketing Scott Steinberg.
I think one of the biggest games for us will be Resistance 2. We expect that, in November, to go toe-to-toe against Gears of War 2," Steinberg told GamesIndustry.biz during GDC.
"It will be our third-generation PS3 product. Insomniac, having shipped Resistance 1, quietly sold a million units. And then Ratchet & Clank last fall. This is the third on their technology shipping in November."
Steinberg also explained Sony's low GDC profile. "It just felt stronger coming from so many different high-calibre partners as opposed to self-congratulatory announcements from ourselves that the war is over and the standards battle is complete, and we have a standard and it is us," he said, referring to the recent HD-DVD discontinuation.
"It just felt like a keynote would be a little bit over the top," he added.
So do any of you feel Resistance 2 stood toe-to-toe in the battle for consumers' money this Christmas? No. Then it didn't meet expectations. Here's a quick definition to show us getting from not meeting expectations all the way to flop:
Failure (colloquially fail, phail or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective.
If you need me to, I can post up the entire question and his answer and you can see for yourselves he wasn't taken out of context.
Tag: Became a freaking mod and a complete douche, coincidentally, at the same time.
