| Squilliam said: If was you who compared Gears, Fable and Halo to MGS4, GT5 and GOW III. I compared the franchises(or series) or general appeal of these games yes. I didn't specify GT5/GOWIII versus Gears/Fable/Halo. Re-read.
Sales are the key metric of success in the video game business. Critical acclaim is nice, but it obviously doesn't pay the bills or fund the next game. Furthermore if a game sells well it is because it reaches a wider demographic of people, some who may not own the respective console and draw them in. System sellers never sell poorly themselves. So if you want to talk about a system seller at this point on the HD consoles you'll have to be talking about a game which will sell at LEAST 4-5Million copies. So if Uncharted/GOW 3 doesn't meet that metric it doesn't enter the picture. All sales of exclusive games measure, is the relative success within a consoles user base. Nothing more. What you don't realize is numerous factors play into the success (of sales) of a game. Halo CE was one of the best games of the entire generation last gen. Yet it sold under 7 million copies. Why?
And to be a system seller it has to sell atleast 4-5 million copies? Where did you pull that random figure from? Where does that metric come from? There could be 2 million people waiting to buy a PS3 for God of War III. Sales can't determine or break that down. Neither can some half-baked metric that you decided to create to suit your argument.
Sales do not determine quality of a game. |
