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foodfather on 11 July 2013
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JustThatGamer said:
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.

Both games seem highly underrated to me and deserve much better sales and fan support. 

As for the GOWJ vs GOWA argument, GOWJ is a spin off and a prequel, doesn't even have the same main playable character so it seems to have sold according to its purpose. GOWA on the other hand was hyped a lot more and advertised a lot as well, I'm sure Sony are disappointed in the sales.

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.

Some valid points there indeed, but I think you are understating how much and how quickly GOWA went down in value. Within 3 weeks of release, the game was widely available for less than £30. Withing 4 week, you can have picked it up for around £23, againly, from a lot of major retailers. GOWJ didn't do that low that quickly. 

And remember, games only go on sale quickly if the shimpents are too high. This is for the UK ocf, I'm not sure what the situation is like in the US.