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NiKKoM on 25 June 2013
Wright said:
NiKKoM said:
I'm only pissed on you guys that you didn't buy Vanquish.. Thats an awesome game that deserves much more sales.. I forgive you guys for not buying Bioshock Infinite..


I bought Vanquish. Did you buy Metro: Last Light?

Yup.. But don't tell anyone.. I have an image to protect that I only play iPhone games..



 

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Mohasus on 25 June 2013

No MP, no buy.

Just kidding, amazing game. My GOTY so far.



kupomogli on 25 June 2013

There are atleast a dozen games I could list with sales that deserve far better just off the top of my head, games like Yakuza 3 and 4, Valkyria Chronicles, The Saboteur, Dante's Inferno, etc. Great games unfortunately get passed on because people are more interested in shooters this gen than anything else.

Bioshock Infinite, as great as it may or may not be, if it didn't have elements of a FPS, I'm sure it'd do just as bad as many other games that failed to sell very well. No matter how good the game is, being a shooter usually means your game is going to sell more than it would have if it wasn't a shooter. A good example is Sniper Ghost Warrior, which is apparently a terrible game, ugly graphics, sitting with a pretty large number of sales for the first game.



MDMAlliance on 25 June 2013

Well what about games like Fire Emblem?



Screamapillar on 25 June 2013

It released at the very end of a historically-long console generation. Software sales dry up at the end of console lifespans, it's just the way the industry works.

Had Infinite released over the holiday, or perhaps a year ago, sales would surely have been higher.

Also, we're not including digital sales here, which account for more of a percentage of total sales than ever before. Probably several hundred thousand downloads on Steam, Amazon digital, etc.



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Heavenly_King on 25 June 2013

I really think that is because people that played it spread the word that the game is not that great; and so; other people did not bothered in buying it.

I am one of those saying the game is not that great.



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SnakeDrake on 25 June 2013
Option- said:
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/13/bioshock-infinite-air-mails-3-7-million-units/

Delievery counts, so they made their money.

But still, I did not like it very much either.

The shooter-mechanics are just solid and far away from e.g. Battlefield 3. I think it´s too "arcadey"...

And honestly, i think that the controls does not have any "grip". It rather feels like you´re controlling a camera that runs through Columbia than a playable individual. It´s hard to describe...

One example, the engine does not allow you to climp over fences -_-

The story is great, though...

Yea, i felt wrong playing with a controller. I had to lower the sensitivity by a lot.



 

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Wright on 25 June 2013
kupomogli said:

There are atleast a dozen games I could list with sales that deserve far better just off the top of my head, games like Yakuza 3 and 4, Valkyria Chronicles, The Saboteur, Dante's Inferno, etc. Great games unfortunately get passed on because people are more interested in shooters this gen than anything else.

Bioshock Infinite, as great as it may or may not be, if it didn't have elements of a FPS, I'm sure it'd do just as bad as many other games that failed to sell very well. No matter how good the game is, being a shooter usually means your game is going to sell more than it would have if it wasn't a shooter.


^ Metro: Last Light deserves the sales, and it don't reach the numbers of those games you've mentioned.

 

And on top of that, it's a FPS. So your FPS-sales logic don't apply here.



haxxiy on 25 June 2013

Maybe the word of mouth wasn't that good then, huh.



 

 

 

 

 

cmeese47 on 25 June 2013

Metro Last Light is okay, some major texture issues, AI problems, and the story went way down hill about 2/3rds to 3/4ths the way through. Personally Metro 2033 was much better in my opinion. I would like to see a bundle with both that would boost sales some.