| starcraft said: People that are saying Titanfall must be seeing something different to me. Based on the information we have, Titanfall got an 86 on Metacritic with no campaign, is the highest-selling title on the Xbox One, and still has a healthy online community 4 months after launch. It also boosted the Xbox One's sales at the time. Were there some idiots saying it will be the game of the generation or single-handedly lead to the Xbox One taking a permanent lead over the PS4? Sure. But only a tiny minority, and that does not equal overhype. As some have said, the most obvious answer is Watch Dogs. Mario Kart 8 seems to have done quite well in terms of sales and quality. Those games that are most overhyped might not actually be known yet, such as Drive Club, Destiny, Sunset Overdrive and the Order...all of which are prime candidates. |
Tiny minority? Please. The same could be said for any hyped game. Are you forgetting the 60-odd E3 2013 awards including best in show, cleaned up at Gamescom, won the 'Most anticipated game' for at VGX, had a monsterous marketing budget, was lauded by IGN as multiplayer gamings 'next big thing' and with such quotes as 'you will buy a XB1 for Titanfall and you should', and was packed into the XB1 for free. Watchdogs on the other hand, was revealed to a fair bit of hype, but by the time it landed its hype (around here at least) was so low that people were writing it off as a flop.
Despite that, Watchdogs on PS4 has outsold Titanfall on XB1 in 1/4 of the time.
