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low selling good games

yes 39 62.90%
 
no 23 37.10%
 
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Trentonater said:
zarx said:
Trentonater said:
zarx said:
Trentonater said:
ethomaz said:
Trentonater said:
ethomaz said:

Uncharted, Heavy Rain and LittleBigPlanet? They had high sales.

For Alan Wake... yes deserve.

they had low sells for their quality while games like mw 2 had ridiculous sales and sucked

For:

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - 3.27M
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 3.59M
LittleBigPlanet - 3.62M

Awesome sales numbers for new IP... and:

Heavy Rain - 1.41M

Great sales number for a niche title... and finally:

Alan Wake - 0.68M

Low sales numbers... but good for a niche title.

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Serious...  What means low sales for you??? Just 18 titles on 360 and 16 on PS3 sold over 3M (total titles: over 1000 combined).

it is not really that they had low sales but again deserved more 

then why is the thread called "low selling good games" and not "Games I think deserved better sales"?

just for those specific games we also talked about okami and team ico games which never sold over 1 mil

nether of which were in your OP and the majority of the ones in you OP sold very well only like one was under 1 million. and I am pretty sure SotC sold over 1 mill. Maybe you should lower your standards because unless the game is a AAA project (budget not review scores) selling 1 mill one one platform is very good, something like No More Heroes or deadspace extraction or Dark void...


sotc only sold about 9.4 mil


you will notice that is only jap and US data vgchartz is missing the other data for some reason and I don't think its a stretch to say it sold over 40 thousand copies in the other regions.



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Heavy Rain performed better than what the people expected, so I wouln't say it was low selling.



Heavy Rain deserves a box office of at least $200 million imo.



Trentonater said:
Reasonable said:

This is always a tricky one for me.  It's like asking me should the same amount of people who watched Transformers watch, say, Moon.  I'd say yes, because they're missing the better film, but really is it fair to make that kind of claim?

I think LBP, Uncharted, etc. sold well for new IP and given their focus in the current market.  Uncharted was SP only, early in PS3's life and there was a lot of 'it's just a Bloke Raider copy cat' stuff going around.   LBP was cute, challenging with it's creation tools and rewarding of patience.

This at a time when the PS3 was selling to mainly the same demographic as 360 and the sure fire titles were all mature, gritty and featuring good online.

Would I like to see them sell better?  Sure, LBP is arguably the most inovative and original game this generation for example.  But do they deserve it as though owed something?  It's tempting to say yes, but I think that's trying to force people to have different tastes.

To me low sales would be something like Ico or Beyond Good & Evil.  Great titles, great reviews, low sales.  I still don't get why more gamers didn't want to play those titles.

So I'll say no, although of course I'd love to see a world where LBP outsold something like MW2.  To me, that would be quite a hoot and give me a warmer feeling about our basic human nature.

i don't know why gamers didn't buy ico. it was one of the first good games on the ps2 and had for the time good graphics

Yah.  It was one of the first really good looking titles, with an engine that's actually still cool in design, and it was very original.  I'm sure the horrible western cover didn't help, but even so with such great reviews and coverage it was just one of those 'huh' moments I'll never get when the community simply ignored something good.



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...

haven't played the other games but alan wake was a great single player experience, fantastic story, as long as it can sell a million (hopefully holiday sales bless the game) i'll be happy...

heavy rain sold pretty damn good to me...



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Easy

The entire Ace Attorney Series



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

Shadow of the Colossus sold more than 1M... VGC is missing Others for PS2 games.

And it was a extreme niche title.



Im a sad panda everytime I hear that MW2 sold 5x more than those combined!!!

 

 



Lyrikalstylez said:

Im a sad panda everytime I hear that MW2 sold 5x more than those combined!!!

 

 

i know and share the feeling...