| Pristine20 said: lol, does the TC want to be plagued with nothing but online shooters? If you ask me, sony already has enough online games under their belt, they dont need to develop any more. One can't keep up with the multiplayer of so many games. |
I think th emain problem with this discussion, that CGI and myself were trying to understand is that if the OP makes a point as to why games seem to sell less on the playstation exclusively or arent selling like the highest selling this gen there needs to be some sense of what the benchmark is.
Once we understand what the benchmark is, which we assumed was this gens exclusives, which was apprently shot down since we werent supposed to bring up the 360 th epoint gets muddled.
For something to "disappoint" there must be an expectation attached. I linked to the highest selling games of the PS2 era, 25 of which sold over 4 million. It seems the point has gotten muddled and proven to be moot base don th enumbers CGI and I have pointed out in comparisons to overal exclusive sales.
On the whole its non existent and i see no correlation to online or co-op capabilities. The sales of this or any generation trend towards franchise names that swallow gamers whole.
When a game sells 1-2 million it should be considered a success, when someone says it should be selling 4 million we need to know WHY, we assumed it was because there are 360 games selling 4 million....well, we have halo, duh, and gears (congrats a breakthrough new IP) If we take Halo and Gears as the standard benchmark very few if any will live up to it in terms of sales, if we take a look at past generation 2-3 million is a resounding success and 1-2 million is a complete success, this is where i dont understand how these expectations were created.
So to point to 1-2 million sellers and saying they should be selling 3-4 million is kind of an impossibly high expectation and i really dont see how online functionality is THE deciding factor in sales bumps as including multiplayer doesnt correlate or create a linear upward trend in sales if we look at games that have begun as single player, GTA, RE, MGS and included multiplayer in later iterations it doesnt increase its sales.
