Is Battleborn one of the biggest flops this generation?

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curl-6 said:

midrange said:

Black ops 3 is also part of a decade old franchise that is known to many, had a huge budget, was not on 1 console only, and had a marketing team and budget that some people can only dream of having.

A better comparison would be Black ops 3 and GTA V. Guess which was higher rated and correspondingly sold more

Wait, you thought I was being dead serious in any of this? Conspiracy Keanu wasn't a giveaway?

Though if you really want to pursue the correlation between reviews and sales, only 2 of the top 10 selling PS4 games are in the 90s on Metacritic, while PS4's highest selling game is it's 121st highest rated.

Overwatch's triumph over Battleborn is more likely the result of far better marketing and more appealing characters, I reckon. Plus Blizzard being a bigger brand name than Gearbox.

Reviews are only part of the complex set if issues that effect sales.  Marketing can offset bad scores.  It's a complex thing.

I will say that marketing difference isn't as big as all that, though it is better.  Battleborn had adds EVERYWHERE on YouTube around its launch.  I think what hurt them was they didn't show the game in a way that really showed what made it a unique product while Overwatch did.  This was especially damaging since Overwatch and Battleborn were promoted at the same time and as a result many assumed Battleborn to be a low budget Overwatch, which it isn't.