These June Game Sales Numbers Are Kind of Depressing

[IkeGreil29]

I know where you're coming from but... enough with the whining! Kinect is crap right now. The peripheral is expensive, most houses don't have room for it, and it is terribly inaccurate. Nyko's zoom of the Kinect might fix the space issue, and I'm sure Eden is a great game, but the peripheral it's sold with just isn't that great.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Well, at least LA Noire sold well. That makes me happy.

But still, Child of Eden and Shadows of the Damned not selling well make me very sad :'(

This is why we can't have new or interesting experiences. Because nobody will buy the damn things.

I would've bought Child of Eden but I don't have a 360. If you release a weird game and you do it on the console that attracts the fps crowd, things like that will happen.
And I've played enough Suda 51 games to know that you rent them before you buy them. Sure it's always something different but you don't always get something good.

DNF made its sales based on hype and I can't say I'm really that surprised that gamers were talked into buying another overpriced and unworthy product.

 

[Mangue Surfer]

Suda sells better on the Wii. And to think I always argued that his work would be more appreciated in a hardcore focused console. Shame on me.

 

[Herbsk]

While it is sad, I'm part of the problem since I bought DNF as well (for the record, I actually liked the game well enough!) but I fully intend to get Child of Eden at some point (using a regular controller - I'm not ready to get a Kinect yet)

 

[Azaraxzealot]

and THIS is why it's completely justified to hate a lot of popular games.

Cash-In of Duty or otherwise.

 

[godofallu]

Child of Eden- A boring rails shooter that is meant to be an arcade game on the Kinect

Duke Nukem- A fully fledged AAA FPS title marketed towards the largest segment in gaming Men 17-28

I wonder why one outsold the other?

PS: Way to play to the hipster crowd and bash games you dislike while picking an unheard of "edgy" game.
PPS: I hate Duke Nukem, playing the first few levels actually made me disgusted.

 

[Strixvaliano]

Honestly I'm not surprised Duke outsold Children of Eden. Duke had massive hype and massive marketing behind it for over a decade. I'm not sure how well Children of Eden was marketed but this is the first time i've heard of it, also the $150 peripheral to play it with gets in the way of sales as well.

I didn't really buy much new this month... I'd rather whatever I can budget to games go to steam sales.

 

[CthulhuMessiah]

Child of Eden needed kinect. DNF didn't. COE didn't have any announcements (that I heard) or history (that I heard of). People knew about DNF.

I think its obvious why DNF outsold COE.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

Depressing, yes. But no one should be at all surprised.

I did purchase Duke but I traded it in a week later, as many thousands of others probably did. I also bought L.A. Noire and enjoyed it thoroughly so I'm very glad to hear of that game's success.

 

[Atmos Duality]

It's just a microcosm of the futility of spurring creativity within the gaming industry. Nothing more, nothing less.

Creative license means nothing if nobody knows about the game, and publishers aren't going to market the game unless they're sure it will be popular.
We COULD reach another cultural milestone in gaming...but we won't barring random chance.

Looking at this year's candidate "blockbusters" for Game of the Year, I see a slurry-storm of remakes, reboots and sequels. This suggests that it's become futile to even *try* to break that glass ceiling of mediocrity we've placed on the market.

Oh, and it'll be Skyrim because the masses decided that back in January...