Heat said:
Strike24 said:
jarrod said:
Heat said:
Strike24 said:
Heat said:
It makes sense to go exclusive - there would be waaay more hype and interest surrounding it compared to Tekken 6. |
So wait, you're insinuating that it would create more hype to cut down a massive amount of sales?
And that Tekken ever caused hype in these last few years?
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Tekken 6 had hype until it was announced on the 360. And I'm not saying it's a fact, but I think Tekken 6 would have sold more if it had stayed exclusive on the PS3 and been released earlier instead of making people wait a year or so for a port to the 360.
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Tekken 6 would've sold more had it not been a pile of shit. I don't think being multiplatform factors even, if anything reaching a larger audience is almost always better for sales.
I also sincerely doubt the 360 port pushed things back a year, no way Namco's really that incompetent.
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Being a Tales of fan, I beg to differ with Namco's competence level.
However, I have to honestly disagree with the amount of hype behind the Tekken series. It was very meh even before it was announced for the 360. If they really saw that much hype behind the game, why put that much effort into a port?
Being exclusive almost never sells more. Hype is a wonderful thing, but it's rather insignificant when it comes to hundreds of thousands of sales within a new audience.
And to give you an idea of what they were up to, Magna Carta 2 came out about a week or so after the release of Tekken 6. Which to why they thought that would be profitable over....many of their other games (WHERE'S GRACES AND HEARTS, AS WELL AS VESPERIA NAMCO?!) anyone could guess.
And Namco's most profitable game last year was Ben 10 anyway. Won't be surprised if they just go that route.
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Just so I know, how are you meant to judge whether a game would have sold more/less if it were exclusive/multiplatform?
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Because I believe that a company like Namco has a lot more extensive research about the potentials of the target audiences and the contrasts between costs and benefits of their products than we do.
Does it piss me off sometimes? Yes, but at least with everything not named the Tales series they tend to go with whatever option is the most cost effective with the most profit.
They just have horrible release ideas. Like Tales of the Abyss the same damn week as FF12. Or Graces the same week as FF13. I could go on.
