Majin-Tenshinhan said:
SamuelRSmith said:
infamous8 said:
Hapimeses said:
infamous8 said:
Hapimeses said:
Jak and Daxter games a failure? Really? Do you believe that?
There were awesome games. They sold loads. They made big profits. What more do people need? |
They made SMALL profits. Don't forget how much marketing and advertising went into those games.
And when one of your BEST DEVELOPERS is just making small profits, it's a failure.
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Do you have any proof of that at all? From what I remember at the time, the games were widely held to be enormously successful and profitable. I'll happily accept your claims if you have an proof of them.
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Perhaps not "small" profits...but rather Smaller profits than they expected when creating the series.
Common sense my man. If they were such an enormous success, Jak 4 wouldve come out in 2007 (when Uncharted did), and you'd be seeing Jak 5 at E3 this year.
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Your logic fails right here. Naughty Dog not continuing with J&D on the PS3 does not mean it was a failure. My proof? Crash Bandicoot. Naughty Dog dropped CB once they hit the PS2, and that was an awesome-selling franchise.
I loved the Crash games, and I loved the Jak games more. What's more, Uncharted has (for me) more play time than any other Naughty Dog game before it (I've completed it four times now, and I'm working through the fifth, though it's starting to drag a bit, now). I personally think that Naughty Dog should stick to a new franchise a generation.
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That's not proof, though, because Universal owned the IP for Crash Bandicoot, and iirc Naughty Dog only had the license to make 3 games. Which is why the series turned to shit after the third one.
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Crash Team Racing was a fourth Crash Bandicoot made by Naughty Dog. What's more, you can actually read on the Naughty Dog website that they dropped Crash Bandicoot because "they aren't fond of grass growing beneath their feet".
