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Teeqoz on 11 January 2016
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Nem said:
naruball said:

Didn't most of them sell around 1m? How where they more popular than LBP especially since they're not very relevant today? Jak and Daxter didn't even make the ps3 era and Ratchet and Clank sold around 1m. Plus, like you said, they both used weapons.

Cute platform games are dead, unless they feauture a NInty chracter that Ninty fans will buy anyway.

 

Jak and daxter sold 3.6m according to this website. Subsequent installments sold less cause "guns" and lost the colorfulness. The series ended because "naughty dog". Same thing that happened with crash.

"cute" platformers are not dead. Its the predominance of brown and grey in art style that fails to appeal to its targeted audience.

Make a goregeus, colourful and with great landscapes platformer and i'm sure it would sell alot.

 

How do you explain Ratchet's decline in sales? You can't blame it on "guns", because Ratchet had guns from the first entry. You also certainly can't blame it on it losing it's colourfulness, because, well, it hasn't, yet each mainline entry sold less than the previous one. Also Sly Cooper, Sly 4 was a gorgeous, colorful (no guns either) platformer, and had great landscapes and was generally a blast to play, yet it bombed.