Sony exclusives that went multiplat have largely failed

[scottie]

007BondAgent said:

scottie said:
@ The prof - while I have no evidence as to what extent this is true, I believe that to some large degree, you are confusing cause and effect.

Which seems more reasonable to you on the face of it.

"Due to taking a step that usually increases sales, sales decreased"

or

"Due to expectations that sales would decrease, developers took steps that would normally increase sales".

For instance, FF13 was a bad game, it was a bad game before the 360 version came out. The devs released it on 2 consoles to sell more. There reason it sold poorly was because it was bad, not because it was multiplat.

how was ff13 bad? when did a meta of 83 become bad?

 

Never look at the number of a review, it misleads more than it helps. For example, GTA4 is the highest rated game ever on metacritic. If you want to learn anything from a review, first look at the reviewer's history, what sort of games they were positive about and why Again, do not simply use the number here, read the whole review, the words are there for a reason. Do they review games for themselves or for their target audience? If the former, then ask yourself, are they the target audience of the game I'm looking at the review of. If the latter, ask themselves if YOU are the target audience. If you're reading a single review and it takes you less than 2 hours, you are going to come out knowing less than you started.

As for how it was bad:

Plot, character development, levelling system, combat mechanics, linearality. You name it, it was bad in it. The only ways it didn't completely suck are the two things that are an afterthought in games for me, sound and graphics.

 

But my opinion and yours don't have to be the same, nor does yours have to be the same as the popular opinion.What did you like about it?