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Forums - Gaming - Ubisoft: Disapointed by Prince of Persia's poor reception

LordTheNightKnight on 24 December 2008
megaman79 said:
You know what VG are not the same as movies. You don't need to go buy the thing as soon as its released.

Economic pressure is ruining the pace of vg production and profit.

 

And look at how the Wii is turning that front loading into something else.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

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ultraslick on 24 December 2008

Well.. when does something new and exciting become repetitive?

I think a lot of games like POP and mirrors edge are made, then their sequels will go on to sell more. It takes time to get a new idea off the ground, and for it to sell well.

But by that time, the forums are clamoring for yet the next new thing, instead of the next iteration of what was once a new thing.

By the time the new formula for mirrors edge or POP is perfected, and the games are near perfect, the masses will be ready to move onto the next game. Its all cyclical.

Truly new innovations are not desired by the masses at first, how could they be? Just pump out the sequel, and all will be right in the world.



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Arius Dion on 24 December 2008

Maybe they shoulda bought this game out for Wii?



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vlad321 on 24 December 2008

The game was EXTREMELY weak. It wasn't good at all. It was GREAT for the first 30 minutes then you just realized you just press A at the right time and you are done.



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

wfz on 24 December 2008
ultraslick said:
Well.. when does something new and exciting become repetitive?

I think a lot of games like POP and mirrors edge are made, then their sequels will go on to sell more. It takes time to get a new idea off the ground, and for it to sell well.

But by that time, the forums are clamoring for yet the next new thing, instead of the next iteration of what was once a new thing.

By the time the new formula for mirrors edge or POP is perfected, and the games are near perfect, the masses will be ready to move onto the next game. Its all cyclical.

Truly new innovations are not desired by the masses at first, how could they be? Just pump out the sequel, and all will be right in the world.

 

I take it you didn't think that the NES or the Wii were true innovations?

 

Well I don't know what to say about the reception of this game, but I do have a copy of this game waiting for me to open it tomorrow night! =D



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Majin-Tenshinhan on 24 December 2008

Then maybe they shouldn't have alienated their prior fans by completely disregarding the Sands of Time-trilogy. Hey, just an idea.



vlad321 on 24 December 2008
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
Then maybe they shouldn't have alienated their prior fans by completely disregarding the Sands of Time-trilogy. Hey, just an idea.

 

Maybe they shouldn't have disregarded the ACTUAL fans by making the Sands of Time trillogy at all then? Thank you for the new direction, I jsut wish the gameplay didn't suck. I don't want endless sequels.



Tag(thx fkusumot) - "Yet again I completely fail to see your point..."

HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

Ail on 24 December 2008

That's what you get for releasing every single game within a 2 month time frame.
They get lost in the mass.
Someone need to remind developers that there are 12 months in a year...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

--OkeyDokey-- on 24 December 2008
vlad321 said:
The game was EXTREMELY weak. It wasn't good at all. It was GREAT for the first 30 minutes then you just realized you just press A at the right time and you are done.

Just like every other platformer ever made...

ookaze on 24 December 2008

Excuses.
This is their entire fault for believing what gamers are saying on the Internet.
This is a typical example of being in caught in "believing what people said".
I think it was in one of "Iwata asks" session that Nintendo said they learned long ago to not "listening to what people say", but rather to "look at what they're doing".
Often, the customer doesn't know himself what he wants.
That's pretty obvious of gamers on Internet. That or their wish is nearly always far from what most people wish.



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