bardicverse said:
While perspective differentiation is accepted, what purpose does it serve? If everyone things GTA3 is an awesome game, and you think it sucks, what bearing does your thought have on the world? The market doesn't care about what individual people think, so if the developers and publishers warrant the game as a success, that's the only voice they hear. So, if COD6 only sold 2 mil units and made a profit, you thinking that it flopped changes nothing. I'm not signaling you out directly, but why do people on forums think that their views are bigger than the general view the industry holds? Even my own thoughts on things don't affect or change the industry's view, and I'm a person engaged within the industry. |
Edit: weird, I thought i wrote something, oh well...
I should have said in my previous post that it would make a profit, but still be considered to be a flop by Activision. I agree that flop or not should be based off dev/pub expectations, LBP for example did better than the devs were hoping, yet many called it a flop because of the 'LBP will be HUEG!!!' comments before its release. That is of course silly.
but Activision requires their big franchises to not just make a small profit, they need Cod and GH to make a huge profit, so that they can finance their new IPs, most of which fail to make a profit. But if they don't make these new IPs, then eventually they run out of franchises that can reliably make them money. Activision would describe 2 million for CoD6 as a flop, and thus so do I
