You got any proof to show they wouldn't?
Would you drop $300 on something you may not even like?
Looks like quite a few indies that don't have the marketing of AAA releases so it's common for those games to get small sales numbers because they're indie and usually less popular genres to begin with.
Yet some on that list were heavily pushed one by a studio well known enough MS gave them a 1 year exclusivity contract.
They were also pushed by a lot of games journalists in lots of articles but they were reported as underperforming.
Sunset got glowing reviews from outlets and coverage but fail to sell copies.
Some of those games don't even make sense to me. Firewatch/Lawbreakers is EssJayDubya?
Firewatch was more the result of the developers targeting PewDiePie in the end plus the general "Oh we talking about series stuff in our walking sim game" Attitude.
Lawbreakers was thanks to Cliff shooting his mouth off on twitter in that games case
Why was Life is Strange successful then if said EssJayDubya-ness doesn't work?
Hella Cringe. Same reason people were going to see the film Cats mostly lol
Dishonored 2 sold quite a bit less already and brought back the voice actor from Thief. But the DLC to a game that was less popular is less popular because of a woman protagonist but not Dishonored 2? That doesn't make sense. Battleborn got taken out by the Overwatch train basically. There's tons of reasons games don't sell as well as hoped for and tons of reasons why games sell more than expected.
Dishonoured Death of the Outsider was a stand alone expansion.
Battleborn was taken out by Overwatch but you know what Overwatch had?
Sexy Butts
There's nothing major on the side of Overwatch vs Battleborn really but players flocked to one over the other.
Other Battlefields had full on regenerative health, nobody was throwing a hissy fit over historical accuracy then. BFV has a bit of an altered regen health system. Nobody complains about how fast reload times are or how low the recoil of the guns are.
And others have had other health systems too. Sorry but it became a genre convention and it's a gameplay convention not an Aesthetic one mostly just mostly out of convenience at the time.
BF is a blockbuster video game series. You should expect the accuracy you'd get from a blockbuster war movie. Again, there's tons of reasons that go into a game being successful/unsuccessful. BFV missed out on the battle royale train for example. DICE has lots of problems with simple shit that they can't get right like TTK and general balance of guns. There's plenty of games that are selling that have "diversity". And, no, potential new women playing BF or COD or whatever already have consoles or PCs if they're interested in those types of games already.
Yeh which was funny because of idiots who complained that I think it was Dunkirk didn't have women soldiers storming the beaches too.
Some things are far more obvious.
Do you know the exact reload time or recoil patter of WWII guns?
So what are these games selling so well with Diversity again?
When is Drake fighting all these guys hand-to-hand? Uncharted is a shooter. Haven't you heard of basic action movie concepts? Like the standard goon or foot soldier? They're the cannon fodder enemy that just went through like basic training. Why can the Ninja Turtles take out hundreds of foot clan but 4 of them can't beat Shredder? Why are the stormtroppers such bad shots in Star Wars? Drake is akin to characters like aforementioned Indiana Jones and John McClane, everyman heroes. Nathan Drake is not John Wick. Nadine wins in a fair fight because she's far more skilled. Same reason why it takes Jackie Chan so long to defeat the final guy from
Drunken Master 2 when he's been taking out the other "goons" like nothing all movie.
Again, if "progressiveness" is why games are selling less, then why are there games with "progressiveness" that are selling more? If "progressiveness" was causing games to sell less, it would be happening consistently across the board and it's not.
Nah Nadine man handles the pair because Neil Druckman has a femdom fetish. That's why it's shown as so effortless almost.
The arm-throw she uses on Nathan at the start literally wouldn't work as her technique is terrible, To throw him using technique that poor and proper positioning you have to be hugely strong like Strongman contest strong.
Worth pointing out that Nadine is also in Lost Legacy but has no such scenes.
You know what who didn't work as the director? Neil Druckman.
You know what other game Druckman did work on?
The Last of Us Part II
Which features hugely buff Abby beat the Joel then ultimately kill him.
Yeh funny how the game he doesn't direct has Nadine not able to fairly easily take down two grown men by herself yet two Druckman games now features women violently beating up main characters seemingly effortlessly.
What are these games that are so progressive selling well?
Uncharted 4 was the 4th in an ongoing series so which hadn't been going that way before so yeh it likely wouldn't impact sales as people would likely buy in.
How many of the games you're going to claim are "progressive" are sequels in franchises?