| the-pi-guy said: Pandora's Tower wasn't a well received game. Would you say that Farmville is peak gaming? At one point that was one of the biggest games, tens of millions of people were playing it daily on FB and elsewhere. I'd argue most of the most critically acclaimed games did not do amazing relatively speaking. The big exception is GTA. That's pretty much the only time where the biggest selling game happens to be one of the most critically acclaimed. Super Mario Galaxy is outsold by plenty of games. Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are very famous in the industry, they frequently get credited by game developers as inspiration, and yet they both sold very poorly. Great games usually do well, but there's definitely not a 1:1 of doing well and selling well. There are some games that are very beloved and yet poor selling. And some games that are kind of hated and yet sold well. There's a million reasons that affect how well a game does. How good it is, whether that concept is really appealing to a lot of people (Wii Sports was extremely appealing to tons of people, but I don't think most people would say it was the quintessential gaming experience), whether that appeal is marketed, whether the market is interested (I don't think Demon's Souls/Dark Souls was an interesting concept for the market when it came out, but the fanbase has grown substantially). |
Well I think that's different. Games can be successful while not being great. Madden games are copy/pastes of the same game every few years and they top charts every NFL season.
I'm commenting on games being seen as "great" and not selling. If it was as good as we think, it would have sold as good.
You're right, Pandora's Tower doesn't fit the archetype and was just a personal example, I personally loved it but I understand why it wasn't well received.
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