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JayWood2010 said:
SnakeDrake said:
Yo Jay you still waiting on vg to update the GB


Sorry I havent been on much.  I was out last night for the most part. I'll try updating in a moment

Well take your time. Its been two weeks since the GB been updated :P



 

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Chunli said:
Did Dead Or Alive 5 really only sell 270k combined? (360 + PS3)

I thought it did much better.
I believe it's undertracked.


http://www.siliconera.com/2012/10/29/hold-on-to-your-cowboy-hats-dead-or-alive-5-sells-over-500000-units/



DirtyP2002 said:

Software-wise, this was not Sonys year at all.

you can make such a top10 list with Sony exclusives (PS Vita / PS3).

Twisted Metal
Starhawk
Sorcery
AC Liberation
CoD Declassified
LBP Karting
PSABR
Resistance Burning Skies (Meta 60, sold 0.17m)
Modnation Racers: Road Trip (Meta 52, sold 0.10m)
Wonderbook (Meta 72, less than 8k in its first month in the US, less than 11k wordwide)

Sure, you can't expect every game to do well. There will always be a flop every now and then, but that is way too much.
Still, the internet will praise Sony for their unrivaled 1st party studios...


For course they will, including me. But that is because Sony's triple A titles are the best.

COD Declassified is a joke, and isn't even Sony just like many other games on your list trying to degrade Sony quality production for games. Just a bad attempt at selling a bad game to a "new" market base.

Only two games are the big dogs that give Sony this reputation. Twisted Metal and Starhawk. The rest are games that no one cares about from Sony, trying to make a fast game to sell the Vita that no one wants. Have to realize Smartphones killed this market even more. When people want to do hardcore gaming, they will play on their couch.

You even listed Playstation all stars, which can be the 3rd game on this list.. Except it's way to early, as the Holiday season needs to pass first. Plus, if you haven't noticed, the fighting genre is nearly dead. They made these games too inexcessible to casual/core gamers, and only catter to the hardcore audience. None of me thought that this game would sell well, but sales don't equal quality. Remember that. I also didn't think Starhawk would sell a lot, as Warhawk was a pretty small market of gamers to sell a game too. Especially so when you butchered the gameplay into something entirely different. That tight community wanted a sequel, not some other nonsense.

As for Twisted Metal, who knows. When I was a kid I loved these games, but honestly for the last 6-7 years the name Twisted Metal doesn't mean shit to me. Doesn't get me excited at all. It's just to outdated overall. And again--I didn't think it would sell well at all.

Now if the Last of Us sells badly, you might have an argument.



JayWood2010 said:
think-man said:
Anyways if were talking flops the latest Forza's got to be in there.


lol uhm no.  Something that has an 85 on metacritic and on it's way to selling 1 million is hardly a flop haha  Try not to show your true colors bro


You have some nerve dood conveniently making up stuff olova sudden like "on it's way to selling" and accusing others of showing their "true colours".





JayWood2010 said:
think-man said:
Anyways if were talking flops the latest Forza's got to be in there.


lol uhm no.  Something that has an 85 on metacritic and on it's way to selling 1 million is hardly a flop haha  Try not to show your true colors bro


Oh but it is a flop. It's a Forza game. This release might have damaged their franchise in the face of their general public. This is like Gran Turismo 6 sold 2-3 million units life-time. It would be a huge flop. Pretty soon, they will be giving this game away in all their bundles cause they sold very little of what they expected.



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Pesmerga7551 said:
JayWood2010 said:
think-man said:
Anyways if were talking flops the latest Forza's got to be in there.


lol uhm no.  Something that has an 85 on metacritic and on it's way to selling 1 million is hardly a flop haha  Try not to show your true colors bro


Oh but it is a flop. It's a Forza game. This release might have damaged their franchise in the face of their general public. This is like Gran Turismo 6 sold 2-3 million units life-time. It would be a huge flop. Pretty soon, they will be giving this game away in all their bundles cause they sold very little of what they expected.


You are making the rookie mistake of using the same standards that go for other mortal games on one of the... I wanna say three remaining 360 exclusives ?!

For those games we use comforting phrases like "on its was to selling", we pretend the brand name is not that big olova sudden and of course 85 becomes a phenomenal disaster...



DigitalDevilSummoner said:
JayWood2010 said:
think-man said:
Anyways if were talking flops the latest Forza's got to be in there.


lol uhm no.  Something that has an 85 on metacritic and on it's way to selling 1 million is hardly a flop haha  Try not to show your true colors bro

 


You have some nerve dood conveniently making up stuff olova sudden like "on it's way to selling" and accusing others of showing their "true colours".



 


No Im serious on what I said.  Something that has sold 700k in 1 1/2 months is not bad.  It is a spinoff that has an 85 metacritic.  Look at the list I made.  All games were of poor quality or have sold horribly. If it was was below 500k this would be a different story, and if it's metacritic was bad this would be a different story.  Forza horizons neither hurt its brand name nor did it sell horribly.  There is a difference between selling decently and bad.  The same goes to PSABR, it is listed at 6th place for a reason.  Some people thinks it should be near the top but I will not put it that far up until we give it a little more time to sell.  




       

Those games are good but are flops.
People doesn't know what they are missing,.



Considering AC Liberation was bundled from day one I wouldn't say 400 K is a good sales number. But it is certainly better than all of Sony's exclusive's have managed this year.



Are games other then Halo, AssCreed and CoD selling nowadays?? If there's proof we need next-gen now, I'd say that was in - when hyped games fall completely flat.