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Forums - Gaming - Game Musings: Even if reviews "can" affect sales, "do" they?

LordTheNightKnight on 14 July 2010
Jay520 said:
60Hz said:

All thats needed to sell games (good or not) is marketing. Reviews in some ways can be looked at like marketing, however attach a crap game to a big movie license and it will sell even when the reviews are negative. The matrix and iron man pop into mind. Also on the opposite spectrum games that get awesome reviews but have no marketing don't sell, valkyria chronicles pops into mind. So the common thread is marketing... that's all thats needed to sell games.


Just because a game gets marketing, doesn't mean it'll get good sales. MAG is still under a mil and I seen a Kevin Butler MAG commercial 2 or 3 times a day. All of my friends knew about it, I still wonder why it sold so low. Maybe people were blown away by MW2. IDK. I do know it had a lot of advertising here in America.


Well even a lot of marketing can't help everything open big if it doesn't make it look like something the audience wants. Take the 1998 Godzilla. That had plenty of marketing, but didn't set the records it was assumed it would.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs