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TripleA

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #120 on: May 15, 2010, 09:25:43 PM »
I have yet to see an Alan Wake commercial.  Not that that means much of anything, but god knows I've seen a shit ton for Splinter Cell, God of War 3, etc.  I guess I was expecting to see a little more marketing for this.

Not only that but its a new franchise with no built in fanbase. It looks like a weird game to casuals I'm guessing. And I don't think video of it comes off especially well.

This will have nothing to do with the quality of the game, but for a game that took 6 years to make and comes from an "acclaimed" developer like Remedy...

Look at Heavy Rain. It had no marketing and half the internet was crying about holding R2 to walk, but it still charted...
What PS3 exclusives don't chart? Didn't MAG chart also? They'll buy almost anything that's exclusive, especially if it's published by Sony.

The point I was trying to make was a brand new franchise in a niche genre was able to chart with zero marketing push  :D


TripleA

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #121 on: May 15, 2010, 09:28:08 PM »
Charting isn't necessarily a big deal. Especially in certain slower months. Hell Too human charted.

Forgot about that game, wasn't Too Human supposed to be a trilogy

Beezy

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #122 on: May 15, 2010, 09:34:30 PM »
Wasn't Too Human suppose to be good

TripleA

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #123 on: May 15, 2010, 09:56:44 PM »
Too Human was supposed to blend the 3rd person action genre with the RPG genre.

It failed miserably.

You know what, that answers my previous question.

AdmiralViscen

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #124 on: May 15, 2010, 10:54:55 PM »
Heavy Rain wasn't pushed?

Shuri

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #125 on: May 16, 2010, 07:41:00 PM »
Capcom should had made SSF4 a downloadable addon..

Junpei the Tracer!

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #126 on: May 16, 2010, 07:53:13 PM »
I'm pretty sure they say they couldn't do it that way because there were so many changes.
Boo

SantaC

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #127 on: May 16, 2010, 08:22:30 PM »
Too Human was supposed to blend the 3rd person action genre with the RPG genre.

It failed miserably.


So it is just like FF13?

TripleA

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #128 on: May 17, 2010, 01:10:53 AM »
Heavy Rain wasn't pushed?

Sony focused their resources on MAG instead of HR.

A miscalculated decision.

TripleA

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Re: April NPD Results
« Reply #129 on: May 17, 2010, 01:13:41 AM »
Too Human was supposed to blend the 3rd person action genre with the RPG genre.

It failed miserably.


So it is just like FF13?

No, FF13 fails for a whole other plate of reasons.