Sony's : BETTER ICO box art could have BOOSTED SALES! (years later)

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CDiablo on 17 September 2009

Ive never had the privilege to play ICO but I always thought the boxart looked dumb.

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darthdevidem01 on 17 September 2009

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lol

Us here in UK got the COOL MGS4 box art!

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Xxain on 17 September 2009

Heres another example of the power of bad boxart:

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Xxain on 17 September 2009

^ it was advertised heavily in Japan not as much here..just Internet

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Khuutra on 17 September 2009

Soriku said:
Box on the left sucks, on the right it's fine.

I agree with Montana though that they should've advertised it. Was SotC advertised? If it wasn't I'm shocked since that game would appeal a lot to people watching commercials. Fighting huge colossi in cool fields with good graphics, how cool is that?

This is why you aren't a box art guy. What's wrong with the one on the left?

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makingmusic476 on 17 September 2009

Soriku said:
Box on the left sucks, on the right it's fine.

I agree with Montana though that they should've advertised it. Was SotC advertised? If it wasn't I'm shocked since that game would appeal a lot to people watching commercials. Fighting huge colossi in cool fields with good graphics, how cool is that?

Oh Soriku. -_-

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darthdevidem01 on 17 September 2009

hey didn't the box art on the right suck & the one on the left was good?

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pastro243 on 17 September 2009

I love the left one, the other one looks like a typical shovelware cover, they got really better in SoTC.

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tombi123 on 17 September 2009

Soriku said:
Box on the left sucks, on the right it's fine.

I agree with Montana though that they should've advertised it. Was SotC advertised? If it wasn't I'm shocked since that game would appeal a lot to people watching commercials. Fighting huge colossi in cool fields with good graphics, how cool is that?

You're getting your left and right mixed up Soriku!

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Lafiel on 17 September 2009

@ Soriku )

you just did it ... you chose the cheesy, cheap and overdone cover over the simply genius art cover *claps*

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