grandmaster192 said:
Lair never, ever had the massive amount of Hype that tittles such Halo or Mario Galaxy have. It was hyped by a very small group of people, unlike Mario Galaxy. You can claim Sony Fanboys hyped it all you want, but that does not equate to the massive hype that games like Halo have. As of now, the Playstaton 3 doesn't have that many hyped games. It's most hyped game is Metal Gear Solid, which will sell great no matter what type of reveiws it gets. If Metal Gear Solid only ends up with 85% average score on gamerankings, the game will still sell great, and the reviews will be called bias because of the hype the game had. This goes for Mario Galay, as well. When a title has such an incredible amount of hype, nothing can stop it. Furthermore, I would like to point out that the Playstation 3 did not launch with the same amount of Hype that the Wii did. Instead, it launched with a ton of negativity. The Wii, on the other hand, hand tons of hype before the console was even released! Nintendo made all sorts of outstanding claims, such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Smash Brothers all launching in the first 6 month of the Wii's launch. They also said that "When you see the Wii's graphics, you will say wow." The Wii had so much hype going for it that it was going to sell great no matte what. |
The PS3 launched with news coverage on every channel hyping it for the entire week adding in reports of lines that were setting up to 6 days earlier. the Playstation 3 had one of the most massively hyped launches in gaming history and was only comparable to Star Wars and a few other handful of hyped events.
When waiting in line for my launch Wii that weekend I did have to go their early(the line started at Midnight) every single person that passed said (playstation 3? PS3? Ohhh the New Playstation...I thought that already came out. How many Playstations do they have in there? even the cops were coming by and telling us the Playstation had a lready launch and people had to explain what the Wii was. In the entire night only one passerby correctly said Nintendo Wii and that is beacuase she was correcting her boyfreind). the Wii had enough hype amongst internet people from E3 to sell out but the launching hype of the PS3 was immensely bigger than the Wii could have had hoped ot be. make no Mistake if Sony had launched with 6 million PS3s on Launch day in NA they would have sold that during the Holiday season. However they did not and the hype became negative with the reality of the higher price setting in and eventually lack of sales.
