Mnementh said:
Very well and surpassing expectations is very subjective. It does slightly better than GoW III, something that could've been reasonably expected. So it does fine, without a question. But I just think the extensive praise is misplaced, as it is a mid-level IP for Japan. Sure, nothing new, but I don't see the same praise for baseball, which actually did better. This is not to diminish GoW, it is just not an IP doing very well in japan. EDIT: And he said it will have decent legs. This is difficult too parse, as again decent is very open to interpretation, but even now some weeks old it is outlegged by multiple 2017 titles. Frigging Snack World outlegs it and has actually barely lower overall sales. So doing 'very well' is only appliable if you start with very low expectations. And that bothers me, because on the other hand titles that sell ten times as much are talked down, because of even higher expectations. Can we keep it all in relation? And budget actually is an expression of expected sales on the side of the developer/publisher (in most cases). So big budget means big expectations. |
We judge things based on its expectations. You can say something is doing very well without it selling huge numbers. It's all relevant to the series, platform, region, etc. I don't see how you can talk about relation while completely ignoring all factors of relation to this game. Just pretty weird for someone whose as active as you are. Budget is an important consideration when talking about recouping the costs of development, but has nothing to do with a game outperforming every previous game in its series and all previously laid expectations in a market where it was not expected anything of at all. Considering that GOW has made back its budget and more, I don't see why the budget talk is relevant at all.
