The PS2 has taught me something about the HD era.Rant.

[DonFerrari]

xl-klaudkil said:

disolitude said:

Exactly on point. Those systems tried the hype machine game but all failed as they didn;'t have the fun games to back it up. Consumers were much smarter back then.

PS2 on the other hand came out with such a rediculous amount of hype which for the first time sold consoles based on sheer hype. I bought PS2 at launch and it had absolutely no good games worth playing until 9 months post launch when Twisted Metal Black came out yet it was sold out and it outsold the competition based on future game promises and DVDs.

But dont get me wrong, PS2 was a great console when it was all said and done. I'm just pointing out that it was at that point that Sony and shortly afer Microsoft started abusing the hype train to wow people and sell preorders. The hype based business model was shortly taken over by publishers like Activision and EA who started introducing DLC and other incetives just so they could have your money in hand before the game comes out.

I agree,sometimes it feels publishers/developer's are putting more time and effort in promoting and hyping the game (destiny,watch dogs i look at you) than actually making the game.

You do know that the marketing team and dev are different people right??? So unless you have any evidence that people deving the game were denied resources to make the games so marketing could blow it, them you are just complaining at the very common pratice in all markets that is use a lot of money on marketing to make people more aware...

On the NES/SNES very few games would sell multimillions, because the base was smaller and marketing as well, but if we try to use the same narrow conclusions you want, we could say that was because they were worse.