Wright said:
Why should have been higher? Demon's/Dark Souls is a very demanding game; it's not for everyone's taste. I can bet that out of those 1.68 in Demon's Souls, there are plenty of people that didn't enjoy the ride. Even if we argue wether Demon or Dark is better, It's the natural progression of a saga; unless you reinvigorate and do something revolutionary (And this is largely relative, because sometimes it is odd what people demand of a new game - you add too much, people'll complain. You don't add anything at all, they complain too), the saga will keep selling less and less. By going multiplatform they sold more, that's a fact. There's no reason that, if having been exclusive, it would have sold more than the spiritual predecessor.
I did not know that about Mass Effect, though. I though that when 2 went gold, it had a multiplatform release. |
Well, it is impossible to predict alternate realities, but we can look at every game here and see how the purchasers declined every time. From that, and looking at how every franchise was growing exclusively, we can suppose that the next game should have grown again. Sure, we only have two data sources for the Souls series, but most other franchises show growth, and then implosion at multiplat release. So we can say with some accuracy that Dark souls had a good chance of selling better on ps3 than demon's souls, but because of things like multiple console owners and people just not buying ps3's to buy an exclusive, they did what was easy and just bought for their own system. Exclusives DO sell consoles. When someone gets a multiplat, that makes the gamers happy of course, but they likely would've bought the competing console to play said exclusive.
