| Soundwave said:
Kinda sad but I think the console business has changed these days. Aside from a small handful of IP -- Skylanders, Minecraft, and a few established Nintendo IP (Mario, Pokemon) it seems like any console game that dares to be colorful or cartoony ends up not doing well. It's not just a Nintendo issue either, seems like Sunset Overdrive did below expectations for MS. Tearaway, LBP Karting, Puppeteer all underperformed for Sony. Rayman Legends overall didn't do great despite being a terrific game. Sadly I don't think Splatoon will take off in this environment either. While Mario and Pokemon do well some of their other IP seems to be a tough sell these days ... Kid Icarus deserved more sales, Pikmin does too, DKC: Tropical Freeze really underperformed. Colorful/cartoony games are doing well, but it's all on smartphone/tablet, where they dominate. Perhaps people are just getting their fill of those games there and the console is becoming reserved for big, Hollywood movie-like, shooters and action games along with sports and racing sims. |
I think it's because those games, while totally being good for all ages, use to sell mainly to kids and kids these days play ios games more than anything else. So that demograph has shrunken and left the 16-45 demograph as the majority. That group favors mature games to just about anything else.
The only way we're going to see a return to the days when games like Spyro and Crash were huge is if we can get kids back on consoles.
