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Why some IPs sell poorly

Year after year some publishers produce the same games. Sometimes if gamers are lucky they seen a new IP. Sometimes the new IPs sell well for example Bulletstorm, Dead Island, and LA Noire. But other games like Majin and Blur don't sell well at all. Is it because the gaming industry only wants the new Call of Duty, Gears of War, and Madden?

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puffkix5301d ago

In the current economic state it isn't feasible to buy every game that looks cool. So why spend the money on a game that may not be worth it? Hence, sequels to already proven franchises or even new IPs by those same developers will sell much better.

jony_dols5295d ago (Edited 5295d ago )

Resistance 3 was an excellent game that sold poorly but massively improved upon the 2 previous games (both of which sold far better).

Sometimes a dev can just get unlucky with timing & publishers marketing ect.

kube005301d ago

Good pt or wait till the price drops...

djcitizend5301d ago

Enslaved was crap. Im sorry, I know I hold an unpopular opinion, but it wasn't very good. It played like a bad scroller and linear version of Assassins Creed.

Pintheshadows5301d ago (Edited 5301d ago )

I agree with you. I thought it was really poor. It felt cheap as I played and the platforming was risk free.

A lot of the time games are simply not worth 40 quid. It's a large amount of money to spend if you are unsure of your purchase.

Auld5301d ago

I agree with you. I purchased that game day 1 because I was expecting good things from the makers of heavenly sword; and I did enjoy the game but it was often too simplistic (come to a new area, view the problem and find a way out), repetitive, and not graphically appealing (somehow their first game seemed better). The final boss was a joke of sorts not to mention the ending which had my gf of all people complaining "wtf thats it?".
What saddened me about the game was that ninja theory didn't seem to have fixed any problems that occurred in heavenly sword and instead carried them over into enslaved.
And ot: I'm kinda worried with them handling the DmC remake...

Quagmire5300d ago

Persnally I found Enslaved and Heavenly Sword to be awesome, and cant wait for DmC

brettyd5301d ago

I try to only buy games at launch that i know are going to be good, after getting burned on games like Brink and Homefront i just can't risk it anymore..

CrzyFooL5301d ago

lack of marketing. Did you see ANY ads for Majin or Shadows of the Damned? NOPE.

Venoxn4g5300d ago

Oh man, I am very very sad and angry about Shadows of the damned.. that game deserves soooo much better and got nothing, except good reviews ...but not sales :/ same goes to Child of eden and Vanquish

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10 Sadly Forgotten PS3 Games You Should Seek Out

The great thing about being one of the most popular consoles of all-time is that there’s always more underappreciated bangers to spotlight.

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jznrpg546d ago

Loved Asuras Wrath. It’s my profile avatar for PS

cbuc1125546d ago

Hell Yeah, Asura is so bad ass!

Venoxn4g546d ago

Great game... wouldn't mind a remaster

Abnor_Mal546d ago

Loved Rain, funnily I was just thinking of it this week.

jznrpg546d ago

Definitely a good game and loved the art style. My daughter watched me play it when she was 4 years old. I’ll have to replay it with her someday now that she’s older. It’s crazy it’s been around 11 years.

Abnor_Mal546d ago

I was thinking of pulling out my PS3 super slim this winter to replay Rain, and try to tackle some of the backlog I acquired.

Knightofelemia546d ago

I love Enslaved such a sleeper hit, Asuras Wrath a very good game I still own, and I wish EA would put out a new Dante's Inferno another game I enjoyed. I never heard of the Rain game I might have to try it out might give Ebay a snoop or two.

gold_drake546d ago

enchanted arms and folklore most definitely.

theres also a game about a red haired guy and a girl who is a sword or something. good game

Knightofelemia546d ago

I think you are talking about Heavenly Blade

gold_drake545d ago

no.
its a anime game. the sword is a girl who speaks.

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Modern Warfare 3 flooded with cheaters after arrival on Xbox Game Pass

Players are using hacks to gain an advantage in the game, such as aimbots and wall hacks. The first gives a player superhuman aiming abilities, while a wall hack lets you see through walls to gauge where other players are.

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Jin_Sakai633d ago (Edited 633d ago )

“These hacks are typically used by PC players, but those playing on PC via Xbox Game Pass are identified as Xbox players in multiplayer lobbies.”

This is pretty dumb to say the least.

Cacabunga632d ago

All about them headshots for Xbox

badz149633d ago

Gotta pump those numbers up

blackblades632d ago

That's a WTF, they suppose to be labeled as pc users even if its on PC game pass. They mess that up big time.

XiNatsuDragnel633d ago

Oh bad this will be entertaining to watch

ZycoFox632d ago

If AI keeps getting better (and it will) it's just a matter of time before there's more sophisticated cheats even for consoles, and they wouldn't even need to be running on it, I have little doubt about that.

lelo2play633d ago

Don't Gamepass online games have anti-cheat systems?
If not, that's pretty dumb. Microsoft need to fix that asap.

Rynxie633d ago (Edited 633d ago )

They won't ever fix this problem, unless they (developers, publishers, Sony and MS) go after the cheat providers directly. You no longer need to hack consoles to use hacks. During the ps360 days, they were going after cheat devices, but it was a cat and mouse game. These cheating methods were around during those days, it's nothing new, but they kept it under control. Since the PS4/Xbox one generation, they stopped going after these cheating devices and it became widespread. Which I find odd, since they started charging for online play (PS4).

StormSnooper632d ago (Edited 632d ago )

Possibly, this is because the companies were going after cheats because the same cheats were being used to pirate the games, whereas today, the companies use online verification to prevent piracy, thus eliminating the need to go after people who cheat only to gain an advantage in the game. As long as the cheater remains below the radar, and does not completely break the game, the companies look the other way as their wallets are not threatened by it. (that is my completely Uneducated opinion on the matter)

pwnmaster3000633d ago

I mean, COD games was always filled with hackers, nothing new. I can’t blame MS on this. Activision had years to try and fix this. Might take MS some time to make some change.

Rude-ro632d ago

It all depends…
Microsoft’s guidance on how to handle gamepass on pc and their love to force crossplay with pc seems like a them issue.
And they own activision, so it is still a them issue.

StormSnooper632d ago

lol well that sucks.

Is there a reason this happened upon arrival on xbox?

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