Why do you think Killzone 3 isn't selling well?

[Michael-5]

Superman4 said:

Michael-5 said:

 

From my experience with Killzone 2, Resistance, and Lost Planet multiplayer is that these games appeal to a smaller audience, and gameplay isn't as balanced, or applicable as Call of Duty or Halo. I mean in Lost Planet for example, get in a VS and you're on a kill streak, and the concept of using a grapple to climb is unusual.

When I say less addictive multiplayer, I'm probably using a poor choice of vocabulary. With my first point, I mean to say that the multiplayer keeps less people in. With the second point, I mean to say it draws less people in.

I don't think the second point is debatable. For the exact same reasons battlefield see's 1/4th as many sales as a CoD title. It's not THE multiplayer game to play, so it's brushed aside by most because a lot of gamers dedicate themselves to one game franchise

That bold comment I think is extremely biased. FPS sell better on 360 for the simple reason that there are 5:3 360's to PS3's in Americas, and Americas is about (2/3) to (4/5) the FPS market (depending the the game). Look at Call of Duty and Halo, and you will see most sales are in Americas despite PS3 having roughly the same sized market in EMEAA. The only time a 360 FPS sells more then 40% a PS3 FPS is when the 360 version is advertized more, as in the case of Homefront.

As for preferences, everyone has their own. I'm a big Lost Planet 1 fan(Not 2, 2 way terrible), but it never sold that well, even as an exclusive (timed, but who knew when it came out?). Halo, CoD, and Gears sell well because A. They are actually great polished games which get very high reviews, B. They appeal to the masses, similar to Mario Kart.

Killzone desrves more sales, but with 3 exclusive shooters to balance on the PS3, all relatively new franchises, and a much smaller instal base in the Americas region, I can see why sales are slow.

BTW for me, I tend to play almost every online game I can get my hands on, even if the experience is only par. I mostly play online, and I burn through all the online achievements/trophies relatively quickly. Only time I stop playing online for a game is when matchmaking takes a long time, and has unbalanced matched. That's why I stopped playing Front Mission online. When I get Crysis 2, I'll play it online, even though the MP demo kind of sucked. I'm currently only playing Halo and CoD online, but craving a new experience.

P.S. I find it funny to always see CGI in an arguement..

I agree FPS sell better in the Americas. I have noticed games like Viva Pinata and some other forgettable games get very large sales on the 360. I may be in the minority of game feel, but it seems to me that every Capcom game has horrible controls, most 3rd party games on the PS3 also suffer from this. COD for me is just boring and tends to suffer from the same control issues. In my experience the 360 has this issue with most of their games. Halo and Gears to me were not that great. Sure they sold a lot but for me sales don't mean it is a great game. If we went by that logic then the Wii was the best console this generation and Top Ramen was the best food in the US.

What control issues are you talking about? What I don't like about CoD on PS3 is shooting with the R1 button instead of the trigger R2 button. Just feels wrong. That's the only control issue I can imagine. The 360 controller is really well designed for shooters, I mean the RT and LT buttons are trigger buttons, shaped like the trigger to a gun.

Sales don't mean a great game at all, they just mean an acessable game with a broad audience, and proper hype. Mario Kart is a fun as hell game, but the reason it sells so well is because everyone can play it and have fun. Not just gamers too, girls, parents, young children, anyone. Call of Duty is a pretty simplistic shooter, and so is Halo. Not to mention these games established themselves early on, so all they have to do to gain sales is release a new game with minor tweaks every now and then. Games like Killzone and Battlefield have to define themselves, which is hard when people don't easily switch over franchises.

In the end, everyone has their preferences. This is why you should judge a game by reviews, and your own experience in store, at a friends, or in a demo. I mean I think Metroid Prime 3 is the best shooter this generation, and it's sales don't back that up.