bouzane on 23 May 2012
| T.Rexington said: Naughty Dog is certainly Sony's shining sword at the moment. Great sales, great reviews, and great fanbase. God of War has done fairly well this gen overall with 3 being the best seller in the series, the HD collection pulling in 2.5 million customers, with only the PSP ports not performing well at all on retail, but that could possibly be due to PSN sales. It'll be interesting to see how the next one does after the PSP collection failed. Poly is a strange case, yeah it took forever to release, but you know what? Prologue sold 4 million+ lifetime and GT5 is the best selling PS3 exclusive ever. They sold about 9.6 million copies under the GT5 brand in total. I think the only failure is letting these devs become overly ambitious. I agree in that you can't let devs take forever, but at the same time, that investment more than paid off, but it somewhat dinged the reputation of gran turismo a tad bit as the game didn't turn out to be as great as people thought it would be and Forza gaining a very strong position racing game IPs this gen. As for Killzone, while it's true KZ is far from taking the FPS crown, you gotta admit that Sony/GG saved this IP. The original killzone was just a flat out failure on the PS2, but turned into a lucrative franchise that sold three times what the original did. Hell, even the PSP game outsold the original Killzone. Sony did good on supporting this franchise. It's not Halo, but it'll make them money just as long as they don't go crazy with the budget, unless we get 4 as a PS4 launch title. Resistance on the other hand? A pipedream that's sunk to the bottom of the ocean. It started out great, but the follow up was a critical stinker that sold based on the first games reputation while the third one was a critical darling but sold on the second one's reputation. I don't have any hopes for the PSV game either. Sony should've definitely released LBP2 at holidays, I agree 100% right there. Skylanders and Disney Universe show off the wonders a holiday availability can do for a game. Can't say I have much of a argument towards anything else other than a reluctant nod. |
Although I agree with everything else that you said I have to point out the fact that critically, Resistance 2 was actually the best recieved game in that series. Also, despite the extremely vocal detractors, I absolutely agree with the critics on this one. Personally, I'm wary of buying Resistance 3 because of how poorly Insomniac supported R2's competitive multiplayer.
