| prinz_valium said: infamous second son for social internet hype |
Hope Destiny won't beat Titanfall? The ALPHA already has. Gaf went from 4/10 meh to 9/10 GOTY after getting a real taste of it. The Beta opens up Mars to playable this month.
Watch Dogs PS4 alone already beat Titanfall sales in 1/4 of the time, Destiny will do it on the first week alone. By Xmas Destiny will have 10x the playercount of Titanfall. And it will sell a ton of PS4s and some XB1s as well.
Titanfall was a flash in the pan rushed half-game (to put it mildly) that barely registered any system sales at all, all after the most inescapable hype machine, advertising blitz, and packing it in for free AND discounting $50 off the system to boot.
In the context of sales for existing XB1 owners, it sold great. Problem was, everyone excited for TF already had bought an XB1 for the most part.
In the context of its hype, advertising budget, free giveaway with the system, system discount, it was an absolutely dismal failure. Gaf threads already talking about the player count disappating on XB1, it's already gone on PC, and by the holidays it will be well and truly dead. COD:AW, Destiny, and MCC will ensure that fate. The only title that can eclipse Titanfall's failure imho is BF:HL, which is just EA being derps and slapping the Battlefield name on a cheap knockoff not even made by Dice. It will be garbage, get critically panned, and fail harder than the last MOH did. And I actually like BF3/BF4.
