oniyide said:
didnt say anything about it being better, dont try to put words in my mouth. Im just giving accurate info, take it how you want it. And FYI the average Castlevania on Ninty handheld sell about 300,000 copies, if you think LOS didnt sell well then the Castlevania on handhelds must have done horrible. |
No I never said you said it was better... you merely implied it by suggesting sales were more important than personal preference and taste (and to be fair maybe they are to you)...all I was saying was that I liked those older style 2d castlevania games (some of which were on the ds, others on other systems) and wish they'd make em still on some console (don't really care which one FYI...I usually own em all anyway which is why I'll still buy los2 regardless).
Yet I'm still fairly confident LOS would have ranked a bigger disappointment financially for konami than any of those 'dud' ds games... The ps3 version alone didn't even crack 1 million and would have cost a hell of a lot more to produce than those old 2d games. Whether it outsold previous castlevania games or not it was still a failure (in terms of sales). Konami would have known the ds games where aimed at a niche market and weren't exactly big budget hd games, while Lord of Shadows was a definate attempt to make the series a viable mainstream franchise, which it didn't really do (maybe its popularity will grow with the sequel but I'll wager if the sequel sells as poorely as the first, we wont see another and konami will try another reboot with different company at some point).
OT I suspect the real reason LOS 2 is not coming to wii u is mainly cos at this stage it's too much of a financial risk given that the game may not even sell over a million on the more established consoles combined, more than anything to do with console bias.
Anyway, gotta go...all thsi castlvania talk has made me wanna replay Lord of Shadows.
