themanwithnoname said:
johnsobas said:
themanwithnoname said:
mortono said:
A lot of people are saying the reason this isn't selling is due to the fact that it is "on-rails".
However, there has been decent success with on-rails shooters on the Wii. Ghost Squad was the first that sold half a million, and it was considerably shorter and more shallow than Extraction.
Then of course there was Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles which sold over 1 million, and then HOTD: Overkill which did pretty good at a half million.
So is it really the "on-rails" factor that's keeping this game from selling? |
I'll add a big "no" to this. It's more of to do with Dead Space not being a big franchise, but even that can't explain these pathetically low numbers. I'm not buying that people are "tired of on rails shooters." Are 360 owners tired of FPSs? Are DS owners tired of RPGs? I don't think so! People can and do buy many games of the same genre, so that excuse makes no sense.
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so RPG and FPS are just as big of genres as rail shooters? You want to go ahead and calculate for me how many more FPS games 360 has sold over rail shooters? How about how many more RPGs the SNES and PS1 sold over rail shooters. It is really easy to get sick of rail shooters, it's a one trick pony no matter how good the game is. You think people are gonna buy 4-5 rail shooters on the same system? That's insane, for most people buying more than 1 is insane. However it is common for people to own 5+ FPS on the same system.
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You're failing to see my point. Those games at least sell fairly close to the same amount. Take a look at the sales of the other rail shooters compared to Dead Space. They aren't even close, and the reasoning "everyone is sick of rail shooters" isn't cutting it, because two of them have done fairly well, and this one isn't even near them.
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if you're trying to say too many on rails shooters isn't the only reason, then yeah there are countless reasons this was gonna fail but they've been talked to death. On rails shooters are not gonna sell like they did in 07 and 08 now though, they just won't. HOTD 2&3 sold nearly 3x more than HOTD:overkill. The reason is timing. RE:DC will not sell even close to RE:UC, but unlike Dead Space RE already has a strong userbase on the wii and is a much bigger franchise in general so it can still retain decent sales, maybe half of RE:UC sales.
