Gamerace said:
JRPG said:
Gamerace said:
This is a faulty argument from the get go. Retailers keep reordering Carnival Games because it keeps selling. A nice steady dependable amount month in, month out. Metroid Prime no longer sells so they don't bother to reorder it when it sells out - why would they?
'Core' type games tend to only sell for the first two months and then are effectively dead. 'Casual' games tend to sell consistantly for months and months.
The exception here is shovelware. Shovelware doesn't sell at all. So it sits and sits on shelves under ultimately it gets put in the bargain bin and continually discounted until someone finally takes it off the stores hands. This DOES suck up shelf space that could better goto House of the Dead or Hanna Montana. So stores don't like it either. |
Carnival Games IS shovelware.
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Why do you think it's sold 3m+? Good word of mouth. People are recommending it to their friends. So for them it's not shovelware. Unfortunately, there are far worse games than Carnival Games (anything by Data Design for example) but fortunately they don't sell.
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Don't forget High Voltage! Unfortunately, their games actually do sell sometimes.
