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TeddostheFireKing on 10 November 2012
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fillet said:
pezus said:
fillet said:


To simplfy further, is that even possible?

Obviously I'm talking about people who play video games, wtf else would I be talking about?

Most of them would not recognize most of this roster. That means, most PS3 owning gamers too, it's just common sense, these are not recognizable people, it's not hard to put yourself in the mind of the average person that owns a PS3...sheesh. Obviously there are hardcore types who will know all those characters, but the MAJORITY will not know more than half. That is very important for a game.

I mean the appeal of a fighter is it's characters or branding.

This kind of argument is ridiculous. Did you know all the Tekken characters before they released Tekken 1? Do you know them now? Does the majority of PS3 gamers know every Tekken character? The simple answer to all of these questions is: No. But Tekken is still huge.

Please look up the defenition of "all-star". You also took my comment out of context, given the thread title, this is with reference to this game - that it's whole premise is one of all-stars.

Tekken isn't an "all-star" game.

 

Here's the definition from wikipedia in the context of movies...

 

Cinema

The term all-star is often used as a form of publicity gimmick to promote the cast of a movie in which a number of high-profile actors appear, sometimes merely in cameo roles. Well-recognized examples include Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Ocean's Eleven (1960), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Casino Royale (1967), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Cop Land (1997), Ocean's 11 (2001). and The Expendables (2010).

 

A game with all-star in the title, should by definition have all-stars in the character Roster. Obviously this the case with PSABR.

 

They should have called it "Playstation A few stars and a mostly characters you've never heard of Battle Royale"

 

Even SSBB didn't have the audacity to use the term "All-Stars", but in fairness it would have actually been very fitting.


At thier peak, Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank reached over 3 million sales. So they are farily popular.  LittleBigPlanet simiarly just reached sales of 5 million and Sackboy himself is often a plushie seen in shops. Tekken is a massive series and DMC is also quite popular. Sure not every series used in PSAS has gang buster sales, but they are appealing to a large fanbase by having so many different characters from different series (Only Good Cole and Evil Cole are from the same series).