Aliens: Colonial Marines Tops UK Sales Charts

[Shadow-Phoenix]

This is just saddening and it makes me glad I never jumped into buying the game since hearing bad news just a day before the game's release on my island.

Seriously I just want another studio that isn't Gearbox to work on a proper fully fledged Aliens game or hell even a new AVP because at this point I'm never going to buy ACM because it's just that shit of a game that's really no different to COD in terms of campaign/graphics and bugs.

Fuck that game I'm going to continue enjoying my time playing AVP 2010, a game that was actually finished and plays far better than a game that spent 6 years and wasn't cared for at all.

As a last note ACM for all the 6 years it took cost around 60 million to make so yeah I can't see it ever making a return profit.

 

[Ukomba]

For better or worse, Aliens: CM might have killed any chance for a Dead Space 4.

How does that make any sense?

It knocked down Dead Space 3. Dead Space 3's launch was already not as successful as Dead Space 2, down 26.6% compared to Dead Space 2. Aliens: CM is in direct competition with Dead Space, Dead Space drawing heavily on Aliens as it does. If Dead Space 3 doesn't earn enough, EA is unlikely to continue producing games.

So let me explain why that does not ring true.

First of all, EA did not publish ACM, Sega did. So EA can't say "Aliens is doing so well, lets put all our resources into making our next game Aliens: Colonial Marines 2."

Second of all Dead Space is one of EA's biggest and best franchises. EA has put a lot of development and marketing dollars into it. They are not going to drop it because a game released a week later has displaced it from the top spot on the sales chart. Dead Space 3 now occupies the 2nd spot. That means it is the 2nd best selling game in the UK at the time the chart was published.

Most games have the majority of the sales they are ever going to generate happening in the first month they are out, front loaded around the time of actual release.

So you are trying to tell me that a game that was top of the charts and currently the 2nd best selling game in the whole UK is going be killed because it didn't sit at number one forever? Do you know how crazy that sounds?

I'm not trying to be mean here, but think about it like a business person. You've invested a lot of money into a franchise, it has had good reviews, and has been at the top of the sales charts. Why would you kill that franchise?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122502-Rumor-Poor-Sales-May-Have-Killed-Dead-Space?utm_source=news&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

Fricken called it.

 

[Your Gaffer]

For better or worse, Aliens: CM might have killed any chance for a Dead Space 4.

How does that make any sense?

It knocked down Dead Space 3. Dead Space 3's launch was already not as successful as Dead Space 2, down 26.6% compared to Dead Space 2. Aliens: CM is in direct competition with Dead Space, Dead Space drawing heavily on Aliens as it does. If Dead Space 3 doesn't earn enough, EA is unlikely to continue producing games.

So let me explain why that does not ring true.

First of all, EA did not publish ACM, Sega did. So EA can't say "Aliens is doing so well, lets put all our resources into making our next game Aliens: Colonial Marines 2."

Second of all Dead Space is one of EA's biggest and best franchises. EA has put a lot of development and marketing dollars into it. They are not going to drop it because a game released a week later has displaced it from the top spot on the sales chart. Dead Space 3 now occupies the 2nd spot. That means it is the 2nd best selling game in the UK at the time the chart was published.

Most games have the majority of the sales they are ever going to generate happening in the first month they are out, front loaded around the time of actual release.

So you are trying to tell me that a game that was top of the charts and currently the 2nd best selling game in the whole UK is going be killed because it didn't sit at number one forever? Do you know how crazy that sounds?

I'm not trying to be mean here, but think about it like a business person. You've invested a lot of money into a franchise, it has had good reviews, and has been at the top of the sales charts. Why would you kill that franchise?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122502-Rumor-Poor-Sales-May-Have-Killed-Dead-Space?utm_source=news&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

Fricken called it.

So you remembered this from two weeks ago and felt compelled to come back with a told you so?

In any case, just b/c they say that doesn't mean the IP is not going to surface again.

 

[Your Gaffer]

For better or worse, Aliens: CM might have killed any chance for a Dead Space 4.

How does that make any sense?

It knocked down Dead Space 3. Dead Space 3's launch was already not as successful as Dead Space 2, down 26.6% compared to Dead Space 2. Aliens: CM is in direct competition with Dead Space, Dead Space drawing heavily on Aliens as it does. If Dead Space 3 doesn't earn enough, EA is unlikely to continue producing games.

So let me explain why that does not ring true.

First of all, EA did not publish ACM, Sega did. So EA can't say "Aliens is doing so well, lets put all our resources into making our next game Aliens: Colonial Marines 2."

Second of all Dead Space is one of EA's biggest and best franchises. EA has put a lot of development and marketing dollars into it. They are not going to drop it because a game released a week later has displaced it from the top spot on the sales chart. Dead Space 3 now occupies the 2nd spot. That means it is the 2nd best selling game in the UK at the time the chart was published.

Most games have the majority of the sales they are ever going to generate happening in the first month they are out, front loaded around the time of actual release.

So you are trying to tell me that a game that was top of the charts and currently the 2nd best selling game in the whole UK is going be killed because it didn't sit at number one forever? Do you know how crazy that sounds?

I'm not trying to be mean here, but think about it like a business person. You've invested a lot of money into a franchise, it has had good reviews, and has been at the top of the sales charts. Why would you kill that franchise?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122502-Rumor-Poor-Sales-May-Have-Killed-Dead-Space?utm_source=news&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

Fricken called it.

Since you got your own told ya so post I figured I should return the favor:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/how-rumors-of-dead-spaces-death-may-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/

I so frickin' called it.