Yeah you would think that developers would release riskier titles like these on the Wii, where development costs are much easier. But noooooo. The game industry has such an irrational hatred for the little console that it's leading to publishers losing money and developers going out of business and/or losing jobs. Of course you can still be a Nintendo-only developer and go bankrupt (Cing says hello). But if a small developer like Cing developed their games on the Xbox 360 and PS3, they would have gone bankrupt even faster. Just look at Deadly Premonition's sales (Marvelous Entertainment's HD debut. I still have to try that game. F K in the coffee!) That's what you get when you take a predominately Wii-based niche company and have them release a HD game.

The bottom line is that the free market of the gaming world is very unforgiving. If you want a gamer to open up his/her wallet and you don't have a marketing giant like Microsoft, Sony, Activision, EA, Ubisoft, etc. backing you 100%, you have to work really hard and have luck on your side in order to survive sometimes (the luck factor is probably the more important of the two). At a time where online multiplayer games are king and gamers are increasingly unwilling to part with $60 for a single-player action-adventure (with such a huge oversaturation of videogames on the market, paying $60 for a game, especially a single-player of short or moderate length as opposed to say a 50 hour RPG or a multiplayer-heavy game, is going to turn off a lot of consumers.) Enslaved is probably on a lot of peoples' wishlists but it's either gonna get bargain binned or Gamefly'd.

Spot on! But even with marketing giants behind a game, unless it's an online FPS, that can't guarentee a good title will sell anymore.

I played the demo the other day there and really enjoyed the game, what taster i got anyway! It is a lot like Heavenly Sword (not surprising considering it is the same dev team and also basically the same characters lol) but shall be buying this asap

You two are just the type of people i like.Year after year people buy call of duty's or any other generic FPS (ahem medal of honour) , and while i play games like Demons souls, everybody plays cod/fifa. This is really terrible as they dont have a confidence or gaming taste of their own, they just follow others and buy the old big yearly franchises. Games like ucharted 2 deserve 10 million sales and they dont get em, its truly sad to see how most gamers have ended em these days

They're all Stupid lemmings

Week three and Enslaved is out of the charts, Castlevania nearly gone too on 360 and not great opening numbers for Vanquish either. There are lots of games doing less than expected at the moment!

NT most be shitting themselves they were expecting this to sell millions now it looks like the game wont even reach HS sales on ps3 and 360

Vanquish at 34.99

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=411638

Not doing so good  I guess

That's just how it is with mainstream entertainment. Due to peer pressure, people are made to feel like they are out of the loop socially if they don't play the latest popular blockbusters. Personally I find that my tendency to have tastes outside the mainstream makes it very difficult for me to relate to people socially. And as a result, I have little need to socialize with people and I have poor social skills (except when it comes to socializing with like-minded geeks). That has started biting me in the ass as I got older. I've figured out that in this world, if you want social success (and social success is usually required if you want a decent career. Contrary to popular opinion, poor social skills can hurt your career advancement even in stuff like IT), you have to be a well-rounded enough individual to build rapport with people in your everyday life. Yes believe it or not, playing Call of Duty can indirectly lead to a better paying job. If you delve into popular entertainment, you get along better with the popular guys. If you end up having more positive interactions with popular people (read: people with great social skills), your social skills will eventually naturally increase. Your social skills increase, so does the positive impression you make to your boss and other employers. If you are totally cut off from mainstream pop culture, you end up like a geek like me. lol (I'm not totally cut off but relatively so. I used to be much less in the loop with mainstream entertainment back when I didn't give this shit any thought).

Yeah I painted a very dreadful, shallow picture of humanity. But that's the nature of the social world. Humans are incredibly shallow creatures (a fact that has taken me a long while to come to terms with and fully accept). It's why even the geeky guys will probably ignore the unattractive girl with the killer personality. Instead of choosing the woman that's going to be the best life-long companion and mother, we choose the one that gets our dick hard. And we wonder about the 50% divorce rate. Just like how  humans follow their genitals, humans tend to follow the crowd.

Pots,

can you name me a game which is doing bad?

I'm curious to know your standards for bad sales and good sales sir, because for anyone's standards those two games are selling terribly. Those are exactly what gentleman call an epic flop.

I think because Heavenly Sword ended up selling about 1.4 million Heavenly Sword 2 could well have been a successful and profitable game. A better bet at profitability than a new IP. Still I hope Enslaved ends up doing well because it seems like a good game and I plan to buy it at some point.