MontanaHatchet said:
Adventure games have never sold well on Sony platforms? Well, for starters, Okami sold over 350k copies, secondly, Tomb Raider only stopped selling once its quality dropped significantly. Before that, the games sold countless millions. Games will do well if they're marketed well. The PS2 was the king of Platformers. They sold millions left and right. Of the 360's 25 million sellers, just about 11 can be considered Shooters, 4 are Racers, and another 4 are Sports game. Wii: 1 Platformer, 4 Minigame titles, 1 Adventure title, 1 Sports title, 1 first person game. PS3: 1 Shooter, 1 Racing title. Only the 360 has enough million sellers to really warrant a pattern. Well, there's my 2 cents. |
The Tomb Raider franchise hasn't sold well for ten years, since the middle-to-end of the PS1 era. That was a long time ago.
And Okami effectively bombed. 350k copies for a game of that calibur on a system with 100 million users? There's simply no way to use this as evidence of strong PS adventure game sales; in fact, quite the opposite. It is the absolute best evidence that adventure games do not sell on the Playstation platforms. If a game that good had been made for the Playstation and was, say, a sports game or traditional RPG, it would have been a million seller for sure, and quite possibly would have reached multiple millions.
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