JRPGfan said:
onionberry said:
Every entertainment medium has fanboys and fans who care about their idols or favorite product, but the only entertainment medium where I see that a lotof people care about sales is in the gaming industry. For example, you don't see Madonna fans saying that Lady gaga sucks because madonna has more money or more sales, or you don't see Cleveland fans saying that Lebron sells more tickets and Jerseys than kobe, so kobe sucks. They use the product or idol to fight "Lady gaga sings better or is more creative than Madonna" "Lebron is better right now, kobe is too old" "Inception is an amazing movie!, better than Avatar!! (avatar sold more)" etc. So why sales are so important to gamers? why gamers are so proud about sales?
This is a charts website so I'm not specifically talking about vgchartz, just in general.
Edit: why we use sales to fight? that's the real point of the thread.
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Because if Lady Gaga has bad sales with a single..... guess what? she still makes a new single.
Software wise..... bad sales = death of a game franchise. Your favorite games wont be anymore.
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It really doens't work that way, though. Artists who don't do well are usually dropped by their labels or stop releasing albums until their lables see that there it demand for them. After Lady Gaga started flopping, to my knowledge, she stopped making music videos and releasing music. Same with Britney Spears. Her manager said that they'll release a couple of singles and see if they'll release an album eventually. That had never happened before with her and it's only because they don't want to risk losing money again on her (since her last album flopped).
