Xbox exclusive D4 flops with less than 10k copies sold in first week (according to the game's leaderboards)

[Mr Puggsly]

thismeintiel said:

iceland said:
Sad that people are taking this as an opportunity to criticize the Xbox community, like an extremely niche game like this would have sold boatloads somewhere else.

Heavy Rain was a niche title that PS gamers pushed to almost 3M sold.  And even the less well received Beyond: Two Souls to over 1M.  What's ridiculous is to assume that putting this game on a system who's audience seems to appreciate niche titles more, and who's company of origin actually pushes niche titles even if they don't sell the greatest, would have resulted in similar sales.

The hole in your argument is Swery games are weird as shit and low budget. Those PS3 games you mentioning were bigger budget, designed for the west, and heavily marketed. Games like Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us probably did very well on Xbox.

Swery's Deadly Premonition sold 110K on PS3 in the west. Why? It was niche and had no marketing.

Hence, try considering other factor than X1. Personally I haven't bought D4 because its episodic. I rather wait until its complete.