A203D said:
Its about £30 here, thats still a really competitive price point 10 weeks in and with Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake and South Africa World Cup out. God of War 3 was reduced in its second or third week compared to FF13 which i think has only recently recieved a price cut. Does anyone have any theories on why its doing so well? i mean its the worst reviewed FF in the main series (ever i think), the ratings on amazon UK are about 3.5, thats aweful. i'm glad its doing well, its sold more copies on the Xbox in EU than Mass Effect 2, and its about to top ME1. and those games have recieved much more critical aclaim.
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It has a metacritic of 82 I believe. I usually go by user reviews on playfire.com because they have lots of people rating who own the game compared to the small amount of user reviews amazon gets. It has 4.4/5 user rating there (same score as X, IX & VIII) while VII is at 4.7, XII is at 4.0 & X-2 is a 3.0.
In terms of why its doing well there's only 1 thing, people are liking it, marketing can do its job for the first few weeks, after that it depends on the game, even on amazon majority of the reviews are 5 stars. In Japan if we compare its clear the game wasn't well recieved by the public because of the drop off in sales (or is a drop off like that common in Japan?)
