Badly made or badly marketed, but yeah, it's true. And the marketing is more important than the quality.

In my dream world, Call of Duty flopped and never got any sequels, and we're getting yearly installments of Katamari: Vietnam and Katamari: Zombies on all platforms.

The link isn't dead for me, but my example is Psychonauts.

You could say that a lot of consumers have been trained to stick to well-known established properties because of how much crap the publishers flood the market with. While there are some companies like Nintendo which have built a solid reputation for delivering a decent product which encourages people to buy lesser-known/unknown IPs, most publishers release several mediocre or bad games for every good game they release in a year.

Realistically, if you were a consumer who didn't spend much time studying videogames I'm pretty sure you would stick to the same games as the majority of the industry is.

Mad World is a good game, but far too short for a $50 game, should have come out of the gate at $30, or had far more content. It was also over the top violent and a very niche type of game.

Dead Space: Extraction is a game that nobody wanted; a spinoff of an HD series that is on rails, and we have enough on rails shooters as it is on Wii.

MPT is a great game and great value for the content, but most people who want these games already own them. I only got it because I was able to sell my copies of MP1 and 3, and I never owned 2.

There is ALWAYS a reason why a game does not sell on Wii, even a good game (and no it is not the fault of Nintendo, nor the fault of TeH casualz!!1)

Psychonauts didn't not sell because people buy sequels. It didn't sell because of little marketing, and what little their was made it seem like a kids game.

BTW, I have the game on PC, but I actually knew what the game was about.

Things are not as black and white as he's describing them, but he does have a point. Want your game to sell? Market it. It's that simple.

Some people seem to be attributing a 'black and white' attitude to Bloober based on the title to this thread. The title of this thread is simply a reproduction of the title for article this is sourced to, and so should be attributed to Eurogamer and not to Bloober. I would change it now if I could, to avoid this confusion.

Game designers need to learn to become celebrities to sell their products, just like filmmakers. Not everybody is as nerdy as us, who can say "Ooh, that's the new Tim Schafer game!" or "Ooh, that's the new Suda51 game!" Kojima has the right idea, putting his name all over Metal Gear Solid, establishing his own brand name. Filmmakers do it all the time, and they're even doing it in the game world now, with STEVEN SPIELBERG'S Boom Blox, and JAMES CAMERON'S Avatar: The Game. Miyamoto doesn't even put his name all over everything, but he's already too famous and doesn't need to.

So I think it's great that really big guys are saying really crazy stuff at Ubisoft, Capcom, and Sega, and these little guys like Bloober and High Voltage are calling them out. Now I'm going to pay attention to them and give them a chance.

Your alternate reality frightens me, somewhat

Kind of generalized but I loved his comment on rail shooters.