Why did so many games sell so bad last year?

[Zax]

celador said:
Lots of different reasons.

Most of the annual games have been going for a long time and people are getting bored of them.

Games like GoW, Metal Gear Rising and Gears were spin offs and were never going to sell as much as the main series.

Sly Cooper is an old IP and a platformer, and aside from Mario those kinds of games never sell as much as they used to.

Some games, like Dead Island Riptide and Crysis 3 don't deserve high sales because they are not very good.

The other games you listed are concerning though, games like Tomb Raider and especially Bioshock deserved to sell more, but there are only so many 'hardcore' gamers around, and clearly not enough to sustain as many AAA titles as are being released.

Bit of a coincidence that all those annual games sold considerably less. Yeah Call of Duty is probably on it's way out but Fifa had been doing better year after year.

God of War Ascension wasn't a spinoff it was a prequel and no it wasn't going to sell as well as GoW3 but to sell a third of the amount when over twice as many people owned a PS3 is terrible. Same for Gears of War it should have sold better just on name alone. Halo Reach was a spinoff and it's sold better than Halo 4.

Metal Gear Rising also should have sold better.