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okay haze was NEVER said to be the halo killer. Yes it was highly hyped and only 600,000 is a flop for a game that highly hyped, but nobody said Halo killer.



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Zlejedi said:
Let's see:

it was heavily advertised and debuted at fps starved platform yet it failed

Would it sale better if it didn't receive advertising support from Sony and the internet hype from exclusive status but go into other platforms with established mammoth FPS franchises ?

I think It would have bombed even harder.

 It debuted on the Wii? Seriously though, since when has the PS3 been FPS starved? It doesn't have a flood of them, but it had a fair few out when the game was released this year. It was along way from starved seeing as how CoD4 and Orange Box had recently been released on it.

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I think they could have mitigated the disaster with it probablt, but it wouldn't have sold much better anywhere. The game just wasn't that good. Multi-platform likely would have been a better call, and might have helped them stave off this current problem for a bit longer. Anything more than that is extremely unlikely though.

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The usual suspects around here did hype it as the Halo killer. No one took them seriously of course, but it was eventually generalized to a common saying. It was massively over-hyped like many PS3 exclusives early on.



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Yes, because those sorts of games have a much greater audience on the 360.

ps3 exclusives=sunken studios

 



badgenome said:
Zlejedi said:
Let's see:

it was heavily advertised and debuted at fps starved platform yet it failed

Would it sale better if it didn't receive advertising support from Sony and the internet hype from exclusive status but go into other platforms with established mammoth FPS franchises ?

I think It would have bombed even harder.

Shhh! Keep it down! There are people here who will get very angry if they hear you say that Haze was hyped.

Yeah like, i would mention Too human, right. 1mil pre-orders. hahaha.

Every console has few stinkers. I doubt it would sell that much better if game was still crappy.

 

 



Wasn't it originally supposed to go to PC and 360 anyway? I thought the idea was to see if the game would be successful on PS3 and then port it over.

See this is why I'm all for multiplatform HD games.