| Zax said: There were so many big name games last year but the sales for them really weren't that great. DmC didn't sell well. Wasn't a very good game. Dead Space 3 sold considerably less than the others, probably won't be any more of those now. Was the weakest of the series. Sly Cooper 4 had terrible sales. Crysis 3 sold a lot less than the second one. Was not as good as the 2nd game. Metal Gear Rising only sold about 1 million or so copies. Was an offshoot from regular series. Tomb Raider should have sold a lot better than it did. Sold OK. Publisher overestimated what it would sell. Great game though. God of War Ascension sold laughably badly, just over a third of GOW3 despite a much bigger userbase. Wasn't a very good game. Gears of War Judgement not even a quarter of GoW3. Wasn't a very good game. Bioshock Inifnite's sales are the weakest of the three despite the universal acclaim it got last year. Not quite as good as the original. Number 2 which is easily the worst only sold off the original's hype. Dead Island Riptide sold like crap. Would have sold better if released as DLC. Have to be honest I loved both DI games and bought this opening day. The "tower defense" sections were great. Easily the coolest looking steelbook I have ever owned and it came free for pre ordering. Remember Me sold like 400,000 copies. Wasn't a very good game. Saints Row IV isn't really doing that great. Splinter Cell has sold really poorly. Batman Origins isn't doing anywhere as well as City. Not even close to as good as City. Gran Tursimo 6 is doing terribly compared to GT5. I think people are hoping this would get PS4 release... Ratchet and Clank sold poorly. Killzone Mercenary sold poorly despite it being the Vita's big game that year. Sold bad because it is on Vita. Incredibly good game. Then even big games like COD, Battlefield, Fifa, Assassins Creed all had games this year and aren't doing aswell. The annual games all did poorly because of new gen announcement. AC4 on PS4 is my favorite game of 2013. Now I know they've been out about a year or less and they will be reasons for some of the games but this is a huge amount of games here that should have sold A LOT more than they ended up. I'm probably even forgetting a ton. |
Some comments in line above with quote. I also think the major reason was because so many good games were released. Most people either can't afford the time or money to play that many good releases in only 1 year span. There are at east a dozen other great games that aren't on your list that came out in 2013 as well.
