These June Game Sales Numbers Are Kind of Depressing
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Don't know why Infamous didn't sell but the rest of those blow, for once the market has spoken correctly.
Release Skyrim now and watch that ************ explode with sales.
Release Skyrim now and watch that ************ explode with sales.
I still like DNF [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.291283-Hypnotic-reviews-Duke-Nukem-Forever#11569732], but I did only get it for the lulz, and I guess a lot of people did. Not at all surprising, Child of Eden wasn't exactly high profile and was very much a niche game. It sure isn't my niche... Now if it came with the same vibrator as Rez did, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Really surprised I'm the only one.
I've insulted inFAMOUS 2 plenty... [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.296612-Hypnotic-reviews-inFAMOUS-2#11728410]Mxrz said:
Really surprised I'm the only one.
Y'know i didnt HEAR about Child of Eden until just this moment, while the Duke has been essentually marketing itself for years. Although, I may be forced to brush the dust off my PS3 its only because of word of mouth, I cant help but feel that far to often when people shout "its a travesty that this isnt more popular" its simply because of that lack of marketing.
You can't sell games no one knows about. I don't thin I even saw a commercial for either of those games :/
I only bought Alice: Madness Returns and LA Noire (which I've already sold back. It was pretty good, but not good enough for me to want to keep it before its selling price went down too far).
Child of Eden is just not my kind of game. It's not something I'd ever buy, even though it looks like it succeed in what it tries to do. I think Kinect hurt it, too. I thought it wasn't playable without the peripheral until very recently. A lot of people had that same assumption, which is understandable because of how it was advertised.
I didn't buy Duke Nukem because...I don't care about him. I don't have a history with the franchise, despite growing up as a gamer during the 90s. Not being into the FPS genre doesn't help its case either.
I didn't get Ocarina of Time 3DS because I don't have a 3DS and already have the game on the Wii. It's not a game I'd want to play on a handheld anyway (and I've already played it at least a dozen times). Just give me Skyward Sword already!
Child of Eden is just not my kind of game. It's not something I'd ever buy, even though it looks like it succeed in what it tries to do. I think Kinect hurt it, too. I thought it wasn't playable without the peripheral until very recently. A lot of people had that same assumption, which is understandable because of how it was advertised.
I didn't buy Duke Nukem because...I don't care about him. I don't have a history with the franchise, despite growing up as a gamer during the 90s. Not being into the FPS genre doesn't help its case either.
I didn't get Ocarina of Time 3DS because I don't have a 3DS and already have the game on the Wii. It's not a game I'd want to play on a handheld anyway (and I've already played it at least a dozen times). Just give me Skyward Sword already!
Maybe because, unlike the game you mentioned which I haven't even heard of, Duke sold millions of copies and is basically the poster child for companies to continue making bland first-person shooters instead of taking risk on the at least somewhat different games like Shadow of the Damned and Children of Eden. The reason people crap on it so much isn't the development time, it's the fact that it only goes to prove that most customers are sheep that will buy anything that's hyped up enough. Of course, that doesn't actually excuse Shadow or Children, which got almost no marketing. That's especially bad for Children of Eden whichs sounds like it would be one of the bigger selling points for the Kinect.Reaper195 said:
Of course, to be fair, I didn't buy any of them. The demo for Duke made it out to be a dull, unfunny FPS with nothing interesting going for it, I don't have a Kinect to get everything out of Children of Eden, and the Steam Summer Sale ate any money I would have used on other games like Shadow of the Damned. So I suppose my opinion is about worthless.
If Duke had been released three / four years ago people would be blowing their load all over it, because the graphics and controls are of that era people rag it instead of being happy that it actually got released and enjoying it for what it is.
The same people bagging DNF are the ones who will buy COD year in year out religiously...no comment is needed on these gamers.......
The same people bagging DNF are the ones who will buy COD year in year out religiously...no comment is needed on these gamers.......
Boobies, crudeness and hype sell better than quiet quality and artistic integrity?!? The hell you say!