AussieGecko said:
Reasonable said:
Don't be naughty! As FPS they are clearly competing for the same demographic as you no doubt know. The mass of PS3 owners who didn't buy KZ3 are just as likely to be the demographic who have zero interest in FPS and only buy RPGs or GT or whatever.
KZ3 cannablized Bulletstorm, it was always going to and I just don't understand what EA/Epic were thinking with that move (no pun intended).
For Bulletstorm to do better on PS3 it either needed a lot of PS3 FPS players to pony up for two full price titles at the same time in the same genre (which was always asking too much IMHO) or chose the new IP that's multiplatform from a developer generaly viewed as MS centric who made some comments about messing with Sony exclusives over a proven exclusive FPS franchise that was the butt of the comments (which I also think was always asking too much even if the developer was actually the People can Fly folks and not the traditional Epic crew).
In short, EA/Epic blew the launch on PS3. Shame really, it's a fun little title judging by the demo and I did rather like Painkiller back in the day.
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they are totally and utterly different style. Bulletstorm is almost a new way of doing fps' while Killzone 3 is the old standard story line etc w/ purrrdy graphics
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Doesn't matter - they're shooters. Someone who doesn't like shooters and plays jRPGs etc isn't going to show interest in Bulletstorm. They're different types of shooters for sure, but it's pretty obvious that they're going to either appeal (or not) to roughly the same demographic.
Also, my point is Bulletorm didn't get the message across it was different in the marketing I saw. For the average PS3 FPS playing gamer looking at titles in a store he'd (or she'd) see two FPS except one they'd know and one they wouldn't.
We're talking differences within a common genre here, not totally different genres. An example would be releasing a fun racing title same week as GT. Totally different style but I guarantee the same result - the less known title will get cannabilized to hell by the bigger IP.
