Smash_Brother on 15 November 2007
| mrstickball said:And again, VP now tracks again on the X360, and Kameo does in Europe. Why would Lego Star Wars 2 sell 500k in the US alone on the X360, and POTC 3, Spiderman 3, and other younger core games do moderately well, and a big AAA younger core game bomb? |
BK was moderately popular 7 years ago, but I can't imagine that the vocal minority we see on the internet being able to pick up the slack when it comes to the game's required sales to break even.
Maybe if MS puts a HUGE advertising budget behind the game, but look at what Viva Pinata was: it had a TV series, toys, a game, the whole nine yards. It was being backed by MS as an effort to get a series as popular as Pokemon out there and even with all that backing, the game tanked.
POTC, Star Wars and Spider Man are all well known and liked franchises, franchises any customer could go to the shelf and recognize. BK might as well be an unknown, because I can't imagine moms looking for something to distract their kids recognizing a seven year old franchise like they would Spider Man or Pirates.
They didn't recognize Viva Pinata and that had a children's show behind it. Again, HOW does BK3 stand a chance?
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
