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oniyide on 11 October 2011
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nitekrawler1285 said:
oniyide said:

ok, yeah the advertisments need work and actually making these games need work too. But i would argue, since these games are NOT being made, shouldnt they then be flying off the shelves, since they are not that many to begin with. If i like fighting games and i have only console A which does not get much of those games, would i not get the first good or at least decent one to come along? But then again im informed and most people are not. 

I dont think SingStar Dance is nothing to be proud of IMHO, not if we look at the sales history of the series. Thats why i dont have much faith in ED, i have yet to see one ad for it and its essentially a new IP, how well do you think it could do?? But i was wrong about Heavy Rain so I could be wrong about this. 

It really depends on what you measure as success. Eyetoy was released on a console that had like 70 percent market share? that is alot of course it would do ok and of course KR sold the best, just about every multiplat back then sold better on PS2 regardless of genre. PS3 is not the market leader and it is not offering something new. The Move is a souped up wiimote, thats not a negative I have one and i love it, but it is what it is. Kinect is succesful becasue it is different from the competition, its offering something that the other two are not. Cant say that for Move, which is why i believe ED and JD3 will not do that well

If the only option is crap then all you attract are a few flies.  

I agree with you on SingStar Dance. It is nothing to be proud of. Im just saying if thats how many flies there are it's not difficult to imagine sales being better than that for a legitimately quality game.

EyeToy had only 3 or 4 games released in America greatly limiting it's success.  It was quite popular in the EU region though.  It sold approximately equal to or greater than Kinect in the EU region and I have been hearing nothing but talk of Kinect's success. We all know Sony doesn't advertise like M$ does either. Account for population growth(almost a decade worth so at least a few million) and I see them being equally successful in that region.  It also helps that M$ has demos everywhere.  I can't go to Electronics store and not see someone trying Kinect.  Sony rarely has this for their peripherals.  I read an interview with a Gamestop manager and just about everything they say Sony needed to do with Eyetoy to make it more successful M$ did  with Kinect and have hardly eclipsed the sales of a not well pushed initiative in that region. You tell me relatively which is the larger success?

Even on PS2 KR sales paled in comparison to almost all versions of SingStar.  KR sales was never my point. Only that there was competition in that genre on cheaper consoles with better graphics than the PS2 didn't exist in a vacuum even if it did have the majority share.  

I could agree with this, except the crap part.  The dance games released on PS3 now are the same games released on the other two. So if its good enough for those audiences there. Why not the PS3 audience??? could it be smaller user base, or simply alot of PS3 owners have one of the other two and just buy it for that?? im going with both