| T.Rexington said: ...Dark Souls has done nothing but out profited and outsold Demon Souls in every category. Face it, Dark Souls is the more profitable game. |
...eh, not really
VGcharts reports Demon's Souls with 1.65m and Dark Souls with 1.71m, that's a difference of 0.6 mil.
Considering the far bigger costs of
-marketing -production -360 tech customization
I doubt it was a more profitable game.
I am sorry but fanboyism aside the numbers say that for Namco it was not that good a decision, especially considering they doubled their potential market.
| A203D said: I think the game could have been more successful. |
The question here is, would it have been more succesful if it was a PS3 only game ?
The reality is that Dark Souls failed to bring back the original PS3 buyers and the issue is that Demon's Souls was not a highly advertised impulse buy, it was a game that sold slowly through word of mouth and people knew what they were getting themselves into. I mean if there is a crowd you could say that got the game because of the reviews and the hype and din't like it, that is (some) 360 gamers.
| NightDragon83 said: It's funny how much Sony fans bash developers that decide to go multiplatform... |
It was not the developers' decision but Namco's. But anyway real fans have nothing to bitch about since the game was not compromised / westernized one bit for the shake of the 360 crowd.
If anything 360 / PC gamers got a taste of real old school playstation gaming.
