naznatips on 24 September 2007
| mrstickball said: IMO, I think VP is going to attempt to be Microsoft's #1 family-friendly franchise. MS needs to focus Rare (since they own it) on the Viva Pinata franchise, as well as the Banjo Kazooie series. Rare's just about the only good non-Nintendo company for family friendly titles (atleast in terms of putting a ton out that are great). VP was a masterpiece of a real-time simulation game and vastly undersold and underrated. But with a system like X360, it needs ALOT of games like this, like JRPGs, to build the userbase - the base isn't already there, but if enough games come out like VP, VPA, and such, they will start selling real well. |
The problem is that the Xbox 360 already has a very diverse line up. It's not a shooter machine at all. Despite that though they can't seem to get anyone but shooter gamers to buy the thing. That's obvious enough from the million sellers lists. Although Viva Pinata is fun, it alone as a series is not going to create any sort of influx. Banjo Threeie will help to be sure, but again, it's not that the 360 doesn't have a diverse lineup: it's that they have this image of "the frat boy shooter console" so ingraned that despite their lineup covering multiple genres they can't get anyone but one group of gamers to buy the machine. I don't really know why this is or what they can do to fix it.
