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thismeintiel on 28 September 2014
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iceland said:
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 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.

Just because I don't think it would have sold significantly better doesn't mean I think the sales would have been similar. Would it have done slightly better on PS4? Sure, I don't think it would have been a big of a difference as people claim. HR and B:TS are big budget retail exclusive games, not really comparable IMO. There's xbox gamers that like niche games, Swery's other game "Deadly Premonition" is proof.

I don't believe HR and B:TS were exactly big budget titles.  I don't even think Quantic Dreams is that big of a studio.  My point, though, was that they were very niche, but sold incredibly well.  The 360 Deadly Premonition didn't even sell 1/4 of what Beyond sold.  Of course, if you want apples to apples you have to look no further than Flower and Journey.  Two niche, downloadable games that sold very well.  

Now, does the 360 have a few titles that are niche and sold pretty good? Sure.  But, as a general rule, they just perform better on PS consoles.  That will be doubly so this gen, given the large sales gap.  And the problem with this game, that wouldn't have happened if it was on PS4, is that MS just doesn't give a shit about this game and just sent it out there to die.  Like I said, if this was Sony, they would have had 3 or 4 ads/features about the game on there Youtbe channel and blogs, and would have given it facetime during at least 1 of its big conferences.