| ckmlb said: A game's success is based on its sales. What is a good selling game to you? 100,000 or 500,00 or what? These are the top selling Wii games, in this list the number of third party core games is overshadowed by Casual and first party games, especially the further up you go in the list. |
There is not an arbitrary point where success magically happens. That is why I used the word arbitrary. Because you are picking numbers that have no absolute meaning. If FF13 sells exactly 1 million on both platforms it will be the biggest bomb of the generation bar none. Hell it might make its way up to biggest bomb in video game history in this impossible scenario. In contrast No More Heroes is chugging along at 300k and its getting a sequel.The game was such a success that they threw a party over how amazing the sales are.
The breaking point is when a game gives a good return on investment. There is no arbitrary number that shows it happened. Shovelware games need to sell less than 100k. Blockbusters need to sell more than a million. Yes, that means you cannot make your argument with the data we have.Accept that and move on.
