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Barozi on 30 October 2012
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oniyide said:
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AndrewWK said:


Assassins Creed has such a huge fanbase people would buy it even if it had a score of 65. Just look at the Resident Evil sales.


not even, look at Bloodlines, that game has ever worst reviews and it still sold more than a mil. Contrast that to RE Revelations getting great reviews but very little people seem to care. Either way if one believes that reviews affect sales of a game that much then they are trolling or just plain stupid.  By that logic Just Dance should have died out years ago.

Casuals don't read reviews. That's the huge difference.
Neither RE Revelations, Bloodlines or Liberation are targeted at casuals and therefore critic reviews will ultimately matter.
Bloodlines did 1.5m with a much much higher userbase and RE Revelations did 620k without even one holiday season.

The AC franchise is a huge one. they sell millions of copies yearly, sure some of that should trickle down despite reviews just like it did for Bloodlines. Naw critic reviews dont matter much in the face of these juggernaut franchises. Revelations numbers is nothing to be proud of not when ORC did much better on one console in a shorter amount of time and reviewed MUCH worst. Actually ORC proves my point there is a series not aimed at casuals and the game sold well regardless of reviews

Again userbase is the key here. How many of the AC fanbase bought a PS Vita until now and the bigger question will be how many are NOT going to buy a Vita because of the so-so reviews of Liberation ?
How is Liberation supposed to sell more than Bloodlines or hell even being able to momentarily keep up with LittleBigPlanet Vita which currently stands at 130k after 5 weeks when the userbase continues to grow as slow as it does at the moment ?