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Mr Puggsly on 07 April 2015
tbone51 said:
alternine said:
Smash 4 Wii U
Starcraft PS3


Smash WiiU sold 3.39mil..... In 2 months, if that is a fail, then 90% of games failed. TBH i think Nintendo is very happy with those sales. Overall SSB did 9.6mil..... Thats a freaking lot bro

Also, its hard to call any 3 million seller a failure when the userbase is that small. That's beating the odds.



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tbone51 on 07 April 2015
Mr Puggsly said:
tbone51 said:
alternine said:
Smash 4 Wii U
Starcraft PS3


Smash WiiU sold 3.39mil..... In 2 months, if that is a fail, then 90% of games failed. TBH i think Nintendo is very happy with those sales. Overall SSB did 9.6mil..... Thats a freaking lot bro

Also, its hard to call any 3 million seller a failure when the userbase is that small. That's beating the odds.


Exactly, only thing i agree with is pushing HW. That said we are talking SW expectations. SSBU definitely did better than most imagined



Mr Puggsly on 07 April 2015
tbone51 said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:

If this is developers expectations not sure why Titanfall is there, I remember EA saying they were happy with the sales.  Anyway Ill say Tomb Raider.


Well most companies will say anything, if im not mistaken, wasnt Titanfall suppose to be the next COD, or was that just fans hyping the game up? 


Sometimes I feel people create unrealistic expectations just so they can laugh when a game fails to meet them.

I don't recall any publisher/developer saying it was going to be a massive seller. Regardless, it did fine and this is why a sequel is happening.



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POE on 07 April 2015

How can anyone say smash for Wii U?



Alex_The_Hedgehog on 08 April 2015

I remember something about Spec Ops: The Line.



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Mr Puggsly on 08 April 2015
NSS7 said:
Resident Evil 6
DmC
Darksiders 2
Tomb Raider (i think it is selling well but not according to SE)
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Shenmue


RE6 actually sold really well according to Capcom. http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html

I think there was hope of DmC and Darksiders 2 doing better. But I don't believe expectations were great.

Tomb Raider probably did fine over time. I think they were just hoping the opening would be bigger.

No way expectations for Sonic Boom were high. Especially after numerous other Sonic games did poorly.

Shenmue had a mega budget on a poor selling platform. That was never gonna end well.



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Faust on 08 April 2015
tbone51 said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Never heard EA or Respawn saying Titanfall was supposed to be the next Cod, in fact I don't think any dev has ever said that.


oooooh damn, wtf! Maybe im wrong.. haha :'-(

it might be the game of the generation but cod means serious business. That being said, if EA decided to drop the exclusivity deal with MS, i guess is safe to assume this game didnt perfom as well as expected.



Faust on 08 April 2015
Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
I remember something about Spec Ops: The Line.


i agree spec ops: the line didnt sold that well but i cant picture the  developers or the publisher anticipating a huge succes for this particular title, if anything i see this game as an experiment, a gamble if you will.



outlawauron on 08 April 2015
NSS7 said:
Resident Evil 6
DmC
Darksiders 2
Tomb Raider (i think it is selling well but not according to SE)
 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Shenmue

This was before the Remastered port. It's now surpassed their goals for it.

Also, I don't think RE6 fits. It may not have had the biggest start, but it's their 2nd highest selling game ever iirc.



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Player2 on 08 April 2015

Perfect Dark Zero. It may have killed the franchise.