sales2099 said:
But Nintendo grabbed casuals at the expense of core. MS retained the core and successfully expanded into casuals. Big difference. The underline is very interesting. MS and Sony both invest in gaming, but you think Sony does it with love and MS feels obligated. Drop your misguided sense of Sony as a humanitarian, its getting old. PS3 Game Sales 2012 (3 week old data). All games have at least a 70 on metacritic. Halo 4 should be able to outdo that stuff within a few days or less. This data nullifies any point your trying to make in your second paragraph. There is no point spending time and money making games that are sent out to die. MS taking the XBLA approach for high quality at low risk and few but BIG exclusives is a good thing given their current lack of developers. Next gen will have more retail so its win win. Anybody who believed MS PR about kinect being for the core need professional help and are extremely gullible. That is PR. Kinect was designed to push 360 as a casual games machine and media hub. It succeeded on both accounts. Simple as that. |
This data nullifies nothing. It just means the games didn't sell well and had horrible marketing, now, does it mean they werent popular? Yes (and many things factor into that). Were the games bad? Thats up to the person who played it.It's a mixed bag, but I haven't stayed from my point that Microsofts prime focus in on a few titles that they can heavily market and concentrate energy in extracting as much sales as possible. Again, Sony just makes games. You're not proving me wrong in any sense, you're just boasting about things I already know. Microsoft has superior marketing, plain and simple. This is a marketing issue. Sony even admitted that they are releasing too many games and not screening as many as they could so they could market adequately for them. They said they will be cutting back on development a bit and focusing on the marketing, but I highly doubt they will stoop to internally making as little as Microsoft does.
I'll say it again, the KINECT FOR THE CORE campaign was a failure. They might be able to pick it up next gen. The Kinects scrolling features are great, people have probably been doing that outside of the gaming industry. Microsoft has trying to get gamers like US to take the Kinect seriously, and they have failed with every attempt. I have never denied that the Kinect was a commercial success, its a marketing success and brought in tons of money but on in terms of concrete value, it's nothing but a Dance Central screen scroller.
