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jarrod on 22 March 2010
Mr Puggsly said:
jarrod said:
Mr Puggsly said:
jarrod said:
Mr Puggsly said:

As far as No More Heroes. Be glad Ubisoft is even willing to touch it. If they didn't who would?

Ubisoft probably won't publish the HD release. So there's no guarantee it'll come to the NA or Others at all.

If Ubisoft didn't do NHM, someone else assuredly would have.  Even if just one of the "niche" pubs, like Atlus, XSEED, Ignition, etc.

I'll be shocked if Heroes Paradise doesn't make it from one of them actually.

And if those companies published NMH for the Wii, sales would have been even more abysmal. Lets remember the origianl NMH actually had TV ads. Atlus aside, those publishers don't support the games they publish.

I predict abysmal sales for Heroes Paradise if Ignition or Xseed publish it. And Wii fans will say, "HD consoles can't sell this game either!"

Uh, NMH1 didn't have tv ads.  At least not in the US (where Ubi published it).  It had like zero promotion actually, I don't even remember web ads?

The game probably would've sold better if Atlus had done it... Ignition seems to do okay with promotion too (thanks Shane!).  XSEED is awful though.

I didn't notice they only did the US publishing. I do believe it had online advertising though.

Anyhow, people can only blame Ubisoft so much. There are a lot of games that receive advertising and still don't receive great sales. Such as Final Fantasy CCCB, Conduit, Madworld, TvC, etc. If those game have good legs, you can't say it was because of advertising. Advertising is usually only good for front loaded sales.

Frankly, I don't believe advertising would be financilly worth while for NMH. And if another (smaller) publisher got a hold of it, it would have most likely sold less.

I'd like to reply to this fully, but I can't seem to locate the goalposts...



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Ssenkahdavic on 22 March 2010
Snake612 said:

No More Heroes 1,No More Heroes 2, Red Steel 1 and Red Steel 2. Those games could have had better LTD sales if there developers showed them some DAMN SUPPORT!

Why Ubisoft? WHY?

Why publish or develop a game knowing that you're not going to give it support by making tv ads or something?

They have been doing this for awhile now. They NEVER gave Beyond Good and Evil (published/dev'd) the support it deserved either.  They released a commercial for it (I remember seeing it during Adult Swim on Saturday Night) and I reserved it on Sunday for the next Tuesdays release.

I guess this is just how Ubisoft does business.



 

  

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BoneArk on 22 March 2010

I said it before and I'll say it again, Ubisoft dropped the ball on NMH2 big time.

I like Ubisoft,but, when a game has a average review score of 86 it deserves a lot of advertising.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Ghazi4 on 22 March 2010

no blame it on the alcohol not ubisoft... :p (sorry im depressed atm and this kinda trolling is kinda helping... ^^)




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bmmb1 on 22 March 2010
Ssenkahdavic said:
Snake612 said:

No More Heroes 1,No More Heroes 2, Red Steel 1 and Red Steel 2. Those games could have had better LTD sales if there developers showed them some DAMN SUPPORT!

Why Ubisoft? WHY?

Why publish or develop a game knowing that you're not going to give it support by making tv ads or something?

They have been doing this for awhile now. They NEVER gave Beyond Good and Evil (published/dev'd) the support it deserved either.  They released a commercial for it (I remember seeing it during Adult Swim on Saturday Night) and I reserved it on Sunday for the next Tuesdays release.

I guess this is just how Ubisoft does business.

Maybe, but Assassin's Creed 2 got significant advertising (or so I heard).



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Ssenkahdavic on 22 March 2010
bmmb1 said:
Ssenkahdavic said:
Snake612 said:

No More Heroes 1,No More Heroes 2, Red Steel 1 and Red Steel 2. Those games could have had better LTD sales if there developers showed them some DAMN SUPPORT!

Why Ubisoft? WHY?

Why publish or develop a game knowing that you're not going to give it support by making tv ads or something?

They have been doing this for awhile now. They NEVER gave Beyond Good and Evil (published/dev'd) the support it deserved either.  They released a commercial for it (I remember seeing it during Adult Swim on Saturday Night) and I reserved it on Sunday for the next Tuesdays release.

I guess this is just how Ubisoft does business.

Maybe, but Assassin's Creed 2 got significant advertising (or so I heard).

Every tv add I saw for AC2 (hell every ad I can actually remember) showed the game with a PS3 and only showed the game for PS3.  Sony had to have something to do with these commercials (like MW2 + Xbox, FF13 in the west + Xbox).  When you have someone else to help you with the ad campaign, IE MS or Sony, makes sense to use it as much as possible.



 

  

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