Greatest Hits for PS3 coming soon?

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Dodece said:
Folklore how did I miss your abysmal sales? Damn you Master Chief I knew I was missing something while I was wrapped up in death matching my fellow Spartans. Frankly its a tragedy this game had such a poor sales history. Let me put it this way Blue Dragon has actually sold three times better. This title alone highlights the fact that the title greatest hits is sheer marketing scat.

I really empathize with the developers need to turn this blight into a shining beacon, that or find some way to turn a profit off of this disaster. That said it does insult ones intelligence and someone has to point out this game has sold only 150,000 units globally. That being the only reason it is on this list they couldn't sell it to consumers at full price. They will probably not find a sale at this new price either.

I would be interested to read the theories as to why this game was a complete failure, but I think the question is why drag this horrible disaster back out into the light. How many of us actually noticed this, and more importantly how common is the knowledge. Were I to have had a game fail this horribly I would pretend it didn't exist not shine a bright light on it. You can always reduce the MSRP in secret months from now, and hope to make back the losses quietly.

I want to be perfectly clear I don't think Folklore was a bad game. While it got a few negative reviews the majority of the reviews were positive. The title did receive a 75 on Metacritic. Just pointing out calling this game a hit either sets the standards idiotically low, or those who thought up the name lack what is called a conscience. The game might deserve to be a hit, but it wasn't. Sony deserves to be mocked for this. They really deserve it.

That's the problem though. Sony pretended Folklore didn't exist. It got no marketing push in America, Europe, OR Japan (where I thought it would have sold most), it simply slipped under everyone's radars in favor of Western developed games, not necessarily limited to shooters and racers.

The odd part is that Sony is keeping their "Soul" franchise  (Monster Kingdom, what it was going to be called outside of Japan) alive with Coded Soul for the PSP.