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Kasz216 on 27 April 2014
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bananaking21 said:
Kasz216 said:


You'd be surprised.  There was a big videogame reasearch paper back in the late days of the PS2 that showed a lot of people bought the PS2 specifically for movie tie in games and that they were the biggest factor for a shockingly large percentage of sales.   Essentiallly if you counted "movie tie ins" as one game it'd be the biggest system seller.

Unfortunitly I can't find the artice due to how crappy search engines have beome and derivvitive bullshit like "10 worst movie videogames" articles existing about a dozen times per website.


well thats interesting, but i wonder how accurate that article was?

 

also, not sure about movie tie-in sales back then, but now days they seem pretty low to call to say that they effect a large portion of systems sold.


The data seemed pretty deent from what I remeber.  The thing that i think is important to realize is that as gaming fans, pretty much anybody on this site or really any gaming website is way far off in the fringe.

Most gamers get basically all their information on videogames from TV commrecials, Word of mouth, and just looking at boxes and stuff.   It's like way back when I was a kid, when you went to the store, all you had to go on was the box art and the back of the box to decide what NES game you wanted to get the slip for.  (They had ALL the games behind the counter back then.)

So, really they've likely got an outsized amount "system purchasing" sales vs other games simply for the recognition.   I get to play James Bond, means a lot more then I get to play Kratos to the average joe as crazy as that sounds to us.