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[Doobie_wop]

CGI-Quality said:

Doobie_wop said:

I get so disappointed with gamers sometimes, two fantastic games are released and they both bomb in the opening week, while FIFA, Halo: Reach, NSMB and some Wii game just keep chugging along. No wonder new studios are failing, gamers are getting stupider and are relying far to much on older franchises instead of helping to create newer and better ones. Enslaved and Castlevania deserved so much more, they should have just made Enslaved a 360 exclusive and Castlevania a PS3 exclusive, maybe then they could have sold better on the back of fanboy hype.

Part of me agrees with you, especially in Enslaved's case (Castlevania isn't a new IP or experience). However, Enslaved is from a once PS3 exclusive dev and there was no way Castlevania would be exclusive at this point.

It was just a throwaway comment. My point was more about how exclusive games would have gathered much more more hype, praise and then sales, only because they are exclusive. I'm finding more and more new games are bombing, despite being great and I think it's because gamers bought in bulk for the first few years of their consoles life time and so now they're stuck on those old franchises (Uncharted, Gears, LBP, Mass Effect) and unless the games an exclusive, it will just fall under everybody's radar, because a new Call of Duty, Halo, LBP, Fallout, Mario game is releasing soon.

We'll probably see something similar happen to the upcoming Naruto game, the first one was exclusive and it's sold 860,000, I have a feeling it's not going to reach those numbers as a multi-platform game, which is sad.