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RubberWhistleHistle on 08 August 2014
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Intrinsic said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:


nothing is wrong with that at all, but that doesnt really answer my question. i would bet most everybody dancing around, jumping for joy in this thread have played the last of us on ps3. 

again, im just really curious as to why people are so hyped about a remake of a one year old game and the sales for it and what its doing for an already very successful console. i can see this kind of interest for like a new god of war game or something and the affect its having, but this? i am still not understanding.

and as a side note, if somebody wanted to play tlou so bad, why didnt they just get a ps3? way cheaper than spending 450 plus tax. so im not so sure that really has much to do with anything. i could be wrong though. it just seems a lot more reasonable to go the ps3 way..

I think you are trying really hard to make something outta nothing, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt. These should answer your questions.

 

  • 260M+ PS3/360/Wii were sold. That is at least 180M unique customers. TLoU on PS3 sold around 7M worldwide and maybe another 2M in used game sales/loan a friend sharing. So so far we are looking at 9-10M people that could have played that game. Still way short of 180M potential sales.  So for your reasoning to apply, all 180M people that could have played the game should have played it. A game is viable and relevant as long as people out there hasn't played it. 
  • People that played the game loved it and like you would passionately talk about anything you love, so will they. So it just happens that they are recommending it to anyone that is coming into the PS4 right now. I don't see why that is so hard to understand. Unless of course you want to tell us you have NEVER recommended or hyped up a game you had played before because the game is a year old. If that is the case, then completely disregard this point, if it isn't then you must understand why I can't help but feel there is something off about your posts.
  • How badly/not anyone wanted to play TLoU is irrelevant. You can't really blame anyone for not going out and buying a PS3 at the last primary year of its life mostly for one game when its successor has been announced and is getting and being hyped up. And people buying a PS4 now for TLoU should tell you two things. There really are people that hadn't played the game and TLoU is just another reason to buy a PS4. Kinda like how anyone buying any other console has a number of reasons why they are buying it.
  • And about this remamke thing... the remaster came out excatly about a year after the original. Have you EVER seen a game of the year game release before? You know, that thing that they have been doing for over 20yrs across multiple platforms. So why is it suddenly a problem now to what has so far been described as the game of the last generation. I personally can't think of a game more deserving. 

 

i know if you read this, its really going to piss you off because i dont 100% agree with you, but i take issue with a few of the things that you said:

for point 1, you can apply that to any game. its not really unique to the last of us.

point 2, the last of us should be recommended to anybody, i agree. but thats not whats going on in this thread. if you read my two posts, what im saying i dont understand is how excited everybody is for this game coming out and the sales for it when they have all already played the game and know what its all about. and to use my example again, wwhd came out for wii u but i wasnt excited about it at all because i was looking forward to more original content. i played it, got everything there was to get, but i cant see losing my shit over it no matter how good of a game it is because.. well, ive already played it before and i know what its all about. i would recommend it to anybody who hasnt played it but i wouldnt say its worth getting a wii u over. it was nice to see it help sales a bit, and the bundle is a cool deal, but i just cant see myself, again, losing my shit over it like people are in this thread. i mean, i guess at that point, its just a difference in perspectives. a remake (especially of a year old game) in my opinion, doesnt warrant this kind of attention, and i dont understand. 

for the other points, i can actually see holding out for a ps4 because there are many other reasons to get a ps4 besides the last of us due to future titles. and the remastered version is obviously going to be better, so why not. therefore, i retract my statement about the ps3 because my statement assumes that the person would be buying the ps4 strictly for the last of us, which i dont think is the case for anybody.

again, im sorry if my post really is making anybody mad.. i know how attached to this game people are and doing anything but getting on your knees and praising it is hard for some people to understand, but i think it just has to do with my perspective on video games in general. i would never be excited for a game from another platform on a new platform UNLESS its a massive overhaul like a link to the past in the style of twilight princess.. something like that because the game would look and play completely differently. experiencing the best 2D zelda as a 3D zelda would be insane. barring some kind of insane overhaul like that, i really just think that the hype for this game is just a little much. ESPECIALLY because it just came out. the resident evil remake deserves way more hype than this, dont you think?