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naruball on 03 March 2013
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Rafux said:

He probably means that is a spin-off without consequence to the MGS saga even if it is canon (and I accept is it) it doesn't replace or chance MGS in any form.

Its like the Metal Gear Acid games, different genre spin-off. Some people are judging MGR as if it were MGS5, we have Ground Zeroes and MGS5 to continue the main stealth franchise.

Yup, exactly. So people aren't buying Metal Gear Rising thinking it's another main series game like Metal Gear Solid. People are buying it because:


B) Platnium Games previous works have been excellent titles (Vanquish and Bayonetta)

I seriously don't get this argument. If PG were so well respected by gamers, whey were both Vanquish and Bayonetta commercial failures?

Sure, some internet people like them, but I think most people who buy God of War, buy the game for the franchise, not because of Santa Monica, hence the success of the first GOW game on psp.

Let's see what happend with their next game if it's not a big franchise (btw, not saying they aren't any good. In fact I've only heard great things about both games, but I don't think developers matter so much, hence the lackluster sales of Bulletstorm and the success of Halo Wars). Santa Monica has helped several studios make games and those games were commercial failures anyway. Sure, they're well respected on forums, but does that translate into sales at all?