God of War III begins Marketing Push with 7-Eleven, Mtn Dew

[Euphoria14]

CGI-Quality said:

Euphoria14 said:
I feel like this is a wasted effort and I also hope I am extremely wrong.

To me GoW is a story driven title, without increased sales of GoW Collection and/or the PS2 titles I don't see how people who haven't played both are going to rush out and buy GoW3 without knowing what the hell is going on.

They will see that it is the end of the trilogy and either buy the previous two or possibly skip the game altogether.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this advertising should have gone to a new IP or something that isn't so story heavy. God of War 3 would have sold itself.

Well, it worked in Halo 3's favor. I'm guessing Sony took notes.

Halo 3 already had a gigantic fanbase behind it though, GoW fanbase doesn't even compare. You could also play Halo 3 without playing any of the previous titles due to it's multiplayer, which in my opinion has always been Halo's best strength when it came to sales.

I am only saying that GoW3 would have sold great regardless of this ad campaign as evident from the preorder numbers we are already seeing, however a game like WKC is looking too good right now. WKC also has a sequel set to release and putting money into WKC advertising wouldn't only help it's sales right now, but it would also help to build a stronger base for the release of the second title.

Start off slow with WKC and don't expect much of anything from Sony when it comes to it's sequel because the sequels sales will most likely follow the sales of the original since it is story driven.