| EspadaGrim said: You forgot LBPK. |
Flopped because it's all the qualities of Mod Nation Racers slapped with the LittleBigPlanet name. If Mod Nation never came around and LBPK was the only game I can gurantee you it would sell very well. But that's not the case. Sony should have improved upon Mod Nation and made more changes. It did sell very well when it was on sale for $10 on PSN though.
| MARCUSDJACKSON said: flops are based on expectations, and my expectations were just about what these games sold. all managed over 200k with twisted Metal doing 250k first wk i think. i only saw advertisement for Twisted Metal, so Sony failed to advertise Starhawk and Sony All Starz. |
Sony did promote Starhawk online a bit with game sites and All Stars got plenty of promotion with all those live action trailers. Let me make this clear. Due to all the major flaws none of these games would ever be major hits.
J_Allard said:
PSABR flopped because it sucks.
Starhawk is a good game but not for everyone and Sony marketing failed it.
Twisted Metal died because Sony rushed it out broken and unplayable online and then took forever to fix it. By the time it was good to go online, its time had passed.
If anything Sony wasted TOO MUCH money on Starhawk. Fun Multiplayer but clearly you didn't play the campaign. It sucks. Anyone who doesn't think it is one big demo is delusional. It's awful. Starhawk would be FAR more successful as a MP only PSN release. I promise you that. The campaign failed it. Nothing else.
| Mensrea said: PSASBR is really just not that fun. Lots of people played the beta, and the game frankly speaks for itself. Starhawk should have sold better, seeing how it's actually pretty good. Twisted Metal should have sold better as well, All in all, none of these games are that good, they are fun and good, but they will never have the potential to sell as well as GOW Killzone or Uncharted. Now if you want to talk about inexplainable flops, talk about infamous games and Resistance 3. Those were incredible. |
You don't know what a flop is. I'm sure a lot of publishers/developers would kill for the sales the resistance and infamous series has sold. The infamous series has sold nearly 4 million or over 4 million across all of it's games and somehow it flopped? Infamous 2 had a lot of controversy for the changes Sucker Punch originally made and being available for free for Plus isn't exactly going to keep its legs going very well but it's still managed to sell probably over 2 million across retail and digital sales not even counting the Plus freebies. Resistance 2 has sold well over 2 million perhaps even 3 million by now and Resistance 3 has managed to climb past one million despite the lackluster MP and no co-op mode seperate from campaign co-op. Disappointing sales? absolutely. The campaign in Resistance 3 for my money is one of the best FPS campaigns ever, I love it and I loved Infamous 2 but neither games are even close to being "flops".
