| DirtyP2002 said: I agree for the most part. I expected bigger numbers for ModNation Racers and of course Alan Wake. Crackdown 2 could have done better as well, but reviews killed it. I don't know why though. Pretty much everybody I talk to enjoys Crackdown 2, just because it is fun. But that is something reviewers don't review these days: Fun. I thought Bioshock 2 would be quite huge, too. On the other hand there were quite a few games that sold well and surprised me. MW2 sold big numbers in 2010, RDR is a great hit and a possible GOTY contender. I didn't see that one coming. Heavy Rain sold well, too. Mass Effect2 and Splinter Cell Conviction did in line with my expectations. But by the look of things the holiday season will be quite big. Halo Reach will sell like crazy, preorders for Fable III in the US are awesome and I don't see GT5 flop badly either. |
I can't decide which is the bigger flop, Alan Wake, Crackdown 2 or Bioshock 2. Out of the three, I have only played Bioshock 2, but my friends were huge fans of Crackdown.
I have to agree Bioshock 2 would have been huge. If they did a slight update on the graphics and threw in some more plot twists, then it would have been awesome. Instead it feels like Bioshock as a Big Daddy and without Andrew Ryan as the nemesis. A fairly safe game, but ho hum for any who played the original.
Alan Wake and Super Mario Galaxy 2 (to a lesser extent) ran into the tsunami that is Red Dead Redemption. No one was predicting Red Dead to have shipped close to 7 million copies before the Christmas season.
I don't know what to say about Crackdown 2 because I have not played a Crackdown game. From what I read and hear, Crackdown 2 is a remake of the original worse than the original. However, I have bought lower reviewed games like Condemned 2 in the past and have thought what in the hell were the reviewers thinking? I would most likely think the same with Crackdown 2 as it appears to be a solid game with a solid premise, but no story which I can dig.
