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curl-6 on 14 March 2013
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Carl2291 said:
curl-6 said:

And just because it sells, doesn't mean it's a good game. There's so much more to sales than quality; advertising for a start.

Advertising is usually only good for launch sales, when the bulk of advertising budget is used. Word of mouth from the general consumer is far, far more important than anything else in the long run. Its essentially the best kind of advertising. I dont think you understand what Im saying though.

Positive word of mouth only comes from a good game. A rubbish game wont get that good word of mouth, and thus wont have great legs. Kinect Sports had/has great legs.

2010 - 2.2 Million
2011 - 1.6 Million (25% drop)
2012 - 1.6 Million (1% drop)

You dont maintain sales like that without good word of mouth.  Another great example for how word of mouth helps is Demon's Souls on PS3. It had essentially no advertising and sold on word of mouth alone.

Doesn't necessarily mean it had a lot of positive word of mouth. Many people would have just bought into the Kinect hype, wanted a game for it, and thought, "hey, that kinda reminds me of Wii Sports, and that thing was pretty trendy, maybe this is trendy too."