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"We live in a World where great games sell less than shit ones."

You could apply this to movies, music and unfortunately politics.
It's not just about different tastes. Mediocrity often has wider appeal.

People don't necessarily enjoy COD as much as their niche interest, be it another game or a completely different hobby, but on mass people know what they're buying with COD and they know it will consume x amount off their time in a familiar, competitive but still relatively relaxing way.



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We live in a world where we can play thousands of great games of the present and the past. Many of the great classics and indies are cheap as hell and new games get affordable very fast. We have more options to check if a game corresponds to our personal taste than ever before (MetaScore with URLs to all the individual reviews, Youtube reviews, Let's Plays, time trials, free weekends, open betas, demo versions...)

But that's not good enough for some spoiled entitled gamers. They whine about "undeserved sales" of games they personally don't like (especially successful games in genres or on platforms they don't like) or disappoining sales of their favorite games (even if the developers of these games are happy with the success and made a decent profit).



Its the purpose of à niche game liké GR2



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

iNathan said:

Sad to see Fifa Ps4 crossing 10m mark, Infinite Warfare selling like hotcakes or crap like BF1, meanwhile great games like Last Guardian or Forza Horizon 3 disapearing from the charts or Inside not even breaking 1m most likely among others, what happened to gaming? 

23
Forza Horizon 3 (XOne)
Microsoft Game Studios, Racing
170,540 1,780,739 13
20
The Last Guardian (PS4)
Sony Computer Entertainment, Action
177,972 877,134 3
24
Ratchet & Clank (2016) (PS4)
Sony Computer Entertainment, Platform
165,840 2,001,352 37

 

and then: 

2
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PS4)
Activision, Shooter
755,796 6,556,016 8
4
FIFA 17 (PS4)
Electronic Arts, Sports
615,024 9,682,828 13
5
Battlefield 1 (PS4)
Electronic Arts, Shooter
550,654 5,848,301 10
6
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (XOne)
Activision, Shooter
523,815 4,080,103 8
14
FIFA 17 (XOne)
Electronic Arts, Sports
278,545 3,520,228 13

well since this is all based on your personal opinion, i'll just say that BF1 is a better game and any of the other games you picked. it's not even close



Is not only games, is also books, music, cinema and all kinds of things, but that's how things are, people that has a more casual approach to those things tend to be less exigent than people that is really into it, but there is no tragedy on that really, is annoying but everyone has the right to like what they like.



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People buy what's familiar to them.



areason said:
With the competition present in the market people tend to buy the already established and very well known franchise, over the lesser known more niche greats.

But great games still do sell well. If you combine digital sales for ds3 the combine pc, ps4 and xb1 version should have sold well over 3 million, which is amazing for a game that alienates a big part of it's potential audience due to not having an easier difficulty mode.

Dark Souls 3 has sold 6 million units.

m_csquare said:
GOWTLOZ said:

I think its because its the same game every year. The football pitch, the gameplay and most of the game modes are all the same except for The Journey added this year that still plays he same way FIFA has always played. I have FIFA 17 on PS4 and I don't feel the need to buy any other FIFA game on PS4 like I did with FIFA 13 on PS3. The only reason I did buy it was because there was a huge improvement in graphics and new small additions to gameplay every year adds up over many years. And that is why its weird how basically the same game is selling so well every year while new interesting games are not. That is what the OP is trying to say. I know the reason of course and his point is very poorly worded.

You cant be serious right? Soccer is soccer. You cant just add some random tweaks to it and call it a soccer game. Fifa or any soccer game is not just abt the soccer itself. It's abt playing your favorite team, or your favorite players or your dream team. And this needs to be updated yearly.

Yes I know that's why they sell well to football fans. I don't understand why people buy games with updated roster every year when they can continue playing the same game and play some other games as well but if they like it that's good for them.

People I know who play FIFA games don't play many games. They play FIFA, COD and some other games. Some of them used to play a huge variety of games but these games provide them with all the enjoyment they want from gaming now. So to them these are better games and they have played many games before so its notr like they haven't tried them. Some of them even used to be huge fans of other game series.



Such is the power of marketing and the consumerist culture we live in, not to say that that every single blockbuster AAA soulless game out there is shit, but it's pretty easy to see that they aren't really interesting when you know better, and are much more involved and knowledgeable about the industry, unlike casuals, which is the market most AAA games aim to appeal to.



I'm now filled with determination.

Forza Horizon 3 will soon be the best selling game in that franchise (since the first games numbers got adjusted down and it sold slightly less then 2 million physical copies) and is still on pace to be the best selling Forza game on the X1 so its sales are actually pretty good.



i've been to the future and 1-2switch will sell over 10 million.