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enditall727 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
flops are based on expectations, and my expectations were just about what these games sold. all managed over 200k with twisted Metal doing 250k first wk i think.

i only saw advertisement for Twisted Metal, so Sony failed to advertise Starhawk and Sony All Starz.


they advertised Twisted Metal? i searched and never found a commercial for the game.

 

you must be talking about those little "out now" images that pop up on sites like here(vgchartz)?

nooooooooooooooo i don't pay attention to those advertisments, but there were some TV advertisments for TM.



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MARCUSDJACKSON said:
enditall727 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
flops are based on expectations, and my expectations were just about what these games sold. all managed over 200k with twisted Metal doing 250k first wk i think.

i only saw advertisement for Twisted Metal, so Sony failed to advertise Starhawk and Sony All Starz.


they advertised Twisted Metal? i searched and never found a commercial for the game.

 

you must be talking about those little "out now" images that pop up on sites like here(vgchartz)?

nooooooooooooooo i don't pay attention to those advertisments, but there were some TV advertisments for TM.


you got any links?



Soleron said:
Deyon said:
EspadaGrim said:
JoeTheBro said:
PSASBR was amazing and has sold over half a million copies. Nuff said.


Dude that is a low number for a AAA title and there was no excuse for a Sony die hard to not buy that game really.

Dude, PSASBR is nowhere near being called AAA. i doubt it even cost Sony 10million to make the game.

Superbot being shut down is proof it missed expectations by far. 

If anything they should have realised non-Smash fighters are niche and had a more appropriate budget.


They didn't get shutdown



Twisted Metal, LBPK and Battle Royale will still climb up the chartz

they didn't deliver properly with Twisted Metal and Battle Royale on the quality front though. I will eventually get LBPK and see how it is



enditall727 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
enditall727 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
flops are based on expectations, and my expectations were just about what these games sold. all managed over 200k with twisted Metal doing 250k first wk i think.

i only saw advertisement for Twisted Metal, so Sony failed to advertise Starhawk and Sony All Starz.


they advertised Twisted Metal? i searched and never found a commercial for the game.

 

you must be talking about those little "out now" images that pop up on sites like here(vgchartz)?

nooooooooooooooo i don't pay attention to those advertisments, but there were some TV advertisments for TM.


you got any links?


nope no luck. can't figure why. it's strange to to see it.



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MARCUSDJACKSON said:
enditall727 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
enditall727 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
flops are based on expectations, and my expectations were just about what these games sold. all managed over 200k with twisted Metal doing 250k first wk i think.

i only saw advertisement for Twisted Metal, so Sony failed to advertise Starhawk and Sony All Starz.


they advertised Twisted Metal? i searched and never found a commercial for the game.

 

you must be talking about those little "out now" images that pop up on sites like here(vgchartz)?

nooooooooooooooo i don't pay attention to those advertisments, but there were some TV advertisments for TM.


you got any links?


nope no luck. can't figure why. it's strange to to see it.


man, Twisted Metal PS3 never got a commercial

 

I was searching up and down for the Twisted Metal commercial when it came out but Sony never made 1



PSASBR is really just not that fun. Lots of people played the beta, and the game frankly speaks for itself.

Starhawk should have sold better, seeing how it's actually pretty good.

Twisted Metal should have sold better as well,

All in all, none of these games are that good, they are fun and good, but they will never have the potential to sell as well as GOW Killzone or Uncharted.

Now if you want to talk about inexplainable flops, talk about infamous games and Resistance 3. Those were incredible.




enditall727 said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:


nope no luck. can't figure why. it's strange to to see it.


man, Twisted Metal PS3 never got a commercial

 

I was searching up and down for the Twisted Metal commercial when it came out but Sony never made 1

hmmmmmmmmm. well CGI would know, but i could have sworn and bet my life on it, but hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

must have watched too many trailers. 



Horrorfest said:

Maybe Sony did limit the potential of all these games during development but they sure did the best they can to sell these games with all of their major flaws. 

No, don't you get it?  It is ALWAYS Sony's marketing to blame.  EVERY SINGLE not expected epic sales comes with lines of posts and threads on how Sony sucks at marketing.  Yes, the company that gave the world Kevin Butler, the most memorable marketing character this generation, apparently can't market games to save their lives, so it has to be marketing.  Or, so it goes.



Mensrea said:
PSASBR is really just not that fun. Lots of people played the beta, and the game frankly speaks for itself.

Starhawk should have sold better, seeing how it's actually pretty good.

Twisted Metal should have sold better as well,

All in all, none of these games are that good, they are fun and good, but they will never have the potential to sell as well as GOW Killzone or Uncharted.

Now if you want to talk about inexplainable flops, talk about infamous games and Resistance 3. Those were incredible.

Didn't the Resistance Franchise sell better than the Killzone Franchise.