Now that the game underperformed and haven't made X1 catch on fire on the charts you claim it is a joke... several MS supporters were quite rampant on how the game would be great and make X1 overtake ps4, we had like 4 threads a day for 1 month talking about it, and it wasn't just 1 person saying it was GOTG (J_Allard), several other have used the monicker and really supported it.

2015!

Once upon a time, all that could push sales of a game was a great demo. Basically the game spoke for itself and then word or mouth carried it through.

These days, we don't even get demos anymore, rather we get a teaser, a trailer, then a collection of stratgic leaks, then finally... dev fucking diaries. All to do one thing, "talk" about a game rather than let people actually play the game. So yh, games (or rather sales) are all about generating hype these days and not about actually making a good game.

I think this year was too much hype expected because of the new consoles. It was just so much going on about how awesome the experience will be on the new, next gen systems.

Too much hype in 2014? I think there some truth to that. I think Watch Dogs and Titanfall were overhyped. I enjoyed both and put many hours into the. Hell I have the collector's edition of Titanfall but I don't care to go back to the game. Right now though I am really enjoying Destiny. I can't say its overhyped personally. I am loving everything about it. It has incredible shooting mechanics, the music is some of the best I have ever heard in a game, and it is something differnet from typical shooters. Its meeting my expectations so far :)

Mario Kart 8 lived up to it's hype the most out of every game that was hyped this year. Smash Bros. will live up to the hype as well, Hyrule Warriors won't live up to the hype at all. Destiny didn't live up to its hype.. Watch Dogs didn't.. Titanfall came close but not as close as Mario Kart 8. Assassins Creed Unity may not live up to its hype. This year was crazy

You know Mario Kart 8 sold great, right? Especially for its 7 million install base and people hating on Wii U.

Yes, the biggest hype was for the wrong games. 2015 is where it's at. Gonna be Christmas all year...

Considering it's out already and reviews and reception for it have all been steller, i would say it lived up to its hype.  And hell that is just the 3DS version.

Heck you can find like 10k minimum viewers everynight watching smash twitch streams.  Weekends even more.  And people are playing the shit out of a demo with only 5 characters.  

Sort of! I think people are still a little sore at Ubisoft which is capping the hype train's speed.