foodfather said: I thought GOWJ was fantastic. Best gunplay in a 3rd person shooter. GOWA looked crap to me, but I'm sure fans loved it. Also, GOWA hit the bargain bin a lot quicker than than GOWJ, I'm sure Microsoft have made more money on this than Sony. |
GoW:A is the third prequel in a series of 6 games and had mostly negativity surrounding it until a month before release due to the marketing focusing on multiplayer. It wasn't hyped, believe me, I tried to hype the game up and convince people it would be awesome but nobody listened and they were right not to, I knew deep down it would disappoint but I tried to stay optimistic.
I'm sure both Sony & Microsoft are disappointed. Also GoW:A hit the bargain bin 2 weeks before GeoW:J (sub £20 is bargain bin considering how recent the games are, no?) but it had multiple SKU's with the collector's & special editions which probably made up for the standard edition dropping in price quicker. Considering this and the fact GoW:A is under-tracked in the US by at least 49K based on its 1st month NPD & its pre-orders were 8x better in Brazil than GoW3 which sold 30K in its 1st month so it's other sales are under-tracked too, I bet God of War: Ascension has made more money for Sony than Gears of War: Judgment did for Microsoft but neither party will be particularly happy with such small profit from both games.