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Ajescent on 09 February 2010

this thread wins...what it wins exactly I'm not sure but it wins all the same.



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Stan85 on 09 February 2010
Torillian said:
You disagree with reviews, it happens. I didn't get paid to give WKC a 6.2 and neither did any other site get paid to downplay Dante's Inferno. They just all didn't like it as much as you did. The idea that Sony paid to decrease the sales of a game on their console is ridiculous.


If I am not mistaken,Sony gets about 10$ per game as a royalty fee from Dante`s Inferno.

Mean whyle,it gets about 40$ per game from God of War 3.

So I don`t think it`s such a big loss,because Sony fans want GOW 3 anyway,so they will not buy DI in big numbers.

But 360 fans are interested in a GOW game,even if NG 2 did not reach 1 million on the 360. My take is that...well,it`s very hard. Really...i have it...hard

I do not say that it`s better than GOW3,it`s not,but so many low scores with many great ones from different sites?

 



Xen on 09 February 2010

First, Sony bought bad reviews for the game.
After that, they also bought the very generous 'Divine Edition', exclusive to the PS3.

Hmm... okay.



Kantor on 09 February 2010

Yes, and I think you should take them to court for this.

Video game reviews are serious business to such an extent that a massive electronics corporation has nothing better to do than bribe reviewers to give a lackluster game in the same genre as one of its blockbusters a low score. But Sony, with its billions in cash reserves could only afford to bribe half the reviewers on Metacritic

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Kantor on 09 February 2010
Stan85 said:
Torillian said:
You disagree with reviews, it happens. I didn't get paid to give WKC a 6.2 and neither did any other site get paid to downplay Dante's Inferno. They just all didn't like it as much as you did. The idea that Sony paid to decrease the sales of a game on their console is ridiculous.


If I am not mistaken,Sony gets about 10$ per game as a royalty fee from Dante`s Inferno.

Mean whyle,it gets about 40$ per game from God of War 3.

So I don`t think it`s such a big loss,because Sony fans want GOW 3 anyway,so they will not buy DI in big numbers.

But 360 fans are interested in a GOW game,even if NG 2 did not reach 1 million on the 360. My take is that...well,it`s very hard. Really...i have it...hard

I do not say that it`s better than GOW3,it`s not,but so many low scores with many great ones from different sites?

 

No, it doesn't get close to that. The large majority of the $60 from a game sale goes to the retailer.



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dahuman on 09 February 2010
RolStoppable said:
Yes, Sony paid them off.

Yes, I did.



Ghazi4 on 09 February 2010

ofc they did not pay for lower review scores people just realized this is a rip off of GOW and gave it low scores and that is why it got low scores :P well in my opinion since im a GOW FANBOY!! :P




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Ajescent on 09 February 2010

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binary solo on 09 February 2010

For me it's more like GoW III and Sony benefit immensely from Dante's Inferno getting good reviews and great sales (especially if the great sales are on the 360). It seems Hack'n'Slash is finding it hard to really grab a decent share of the market this gen. If Dante's Inferno had raised H'n'S to a new level of interest this would only bode well for GoWIII. Especially if it might entice people who only have a 360 who enjoyed the DI gameplay (here again similarity to GoW III is again to the benefit of GoW III) to go out and get a PS3 for GoW III to get even more H'n'S love, though there's always Darksiders and Bayonetta to keep 360 owners "loyal".

There is more likely to be a win-win for Sony if DI does well.

Finally the pre-orders for DI suggest it's getting more support from PS3 owners than 360 owners, so the suggestion that GoW III anticipation will diminish sales on PS3 doesn't seem to be stacking up.

My only beef with the DI reviews is that too much is made of the copying of GoW's gameplay to justify knocking it down a few points in the final score. The other criticisms of the game (in the opinions' of the reviewers) are all fair enough.

It'll be a game that will be widely available on the used market, so i should pick up a copy eventually.

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Stan85 on 09 February 2010
Torillian said:
BTW, if you want to talk about how much better Dante is than GoW you should probably put atleast one GoW game in your owned games list even if it's a lie. That way someone might listen to your opinion about the two....maybe.

I do not lie,I have everygame from my games list,I`m not a liar.

I have finished both GOW games and i like them,but i don`t have them so I will not put them in my list.

And yes,it`s my opinion,and I am asking yours. Nobody has to agree to anything,the people`s opinion is important.