Why Platinum's games don't sell well?

[GTAexpert]

Ostro said:

All points are valid.

But this covers most of it imo.

GTAexpert said:

2. Platinum's games are short: Gamer's today seem to care far more about quantity than quality, and that's a problem for Platinum as their games are very good but also very short. Their games are usually 10 hours long, but one of their games MGR: R is just 5 hours long, with most of that time being cutscenes. That stops many people from buying their games even if they really want to play it.

Even fans of the genres said the games are too short. When other people told them that's one of the great things because it's about high scores, getting better and better, finding different routes and therefore the opposite of hours of an entertaining world with less action and long ways to go, they understood and slowly became score hunters themselves.

Platinum's games are games. Pick them up for a short period, rack up a nice score, build some ideas and skills for your next run. While The Walking Dead is on the one extreme side of video games where it's all about story and almost only about choices, Platinum is on the other extreme side where it's about fast paced action and although they have pretty good stories, they are quite quirky and nothing you'd believe in or get sucked into the game's world by.

What you said doesn't make much sense, a game doesn't need to be like one of Platinum's games to be called a game. People have different tastes in gaming, so just because their games have fast action and "pretty good stories" doesn't mean they are the only games in existence.

As for the length, if a game is short it doesn't usually stop me from buying a game if I'm interested in the game. But its obvious that most gamers don't think the same way.