Without getting into whether it's a lost cause or not, this article is wrong off the bat. You can get a $50 discount off nearly any bundle, the price hasn't actually been cut to 350. Some Xbox One bundle's still amount to over $400 even with that discount.
That's why they have Forza Horizon 2 an average score, right? Conspirators, never read the review, always hating on the score... When it suits them.
No disrespect here, but sports and shooter games sell more than any other genres in gaming, generally speaking. Oversell is definitely a poor choice in wording, but the core discussion is why those sales are so much higher than the rest. To say people by it because they like it is to circumvent that core discussion. Although I think it's an interesting topic, I agree with you that this piece didn't really cover it well.
It's not a piece on why they sell, it's a piece on why they oversell.
You know that means the dragon's gonna eat it, right?
@buyakabuyaka6199 Companies that size don't fund their business from the profits they make but from the investors who put money into the company.
Since they launched the PS3 they were making losses but they were still funding huge AAA game projects. Microsoft instead had a bigger stake in DLC deals and they profited a hell of a lot from that; first to get CoD. Fifa, and Skyrim DLC, even the GTA Episodes from LC.
That wasn't part of Sony's Playstat...
I do believe you've misused the term damage control. Not only that, I wasn't really flipping out, it's only a wall of text because that's how I prefer to type.
Anyway, you might think it's nothing, but I think it's important that we hold gaming journalism to a higher standard if we want something more than the cacophony of baseless opinions that currently reigns.
"I don't like [sports] so as far as I know, people by it because other people have it"
I stopped watching there. Eff off, if you can't even research the piece that you're doing then don't do it. It's like when I watch a review of a racing game and the reviewer says "I'm not a huge racing game fan" then don't review it, because you're not going to tell me the stuff I want to know (on that note, thank God for Daniel Bloodworth...
No need to be mean
This piece hasn't really articulated why Hatred is a sham so much as just add to the cacophony of opinion pieces out there related to the game.
It's still coherent and expressive though.
@thereapersson it was only Jet Grind Radio in North America, everywhere else it was Jet Set Radio.
As usual, the ignorance among N4G users is abundant.
@badz149 The Forza franchise in general sells quite well, dude.
Dat gif!
Microsoft has a good track record of making their games achieve healthy commercial targets.
Spiteful behaviour doesn't make you better, only just as bad as those who you're retaliating to.
I for one always thought Resistance was underrated.
With an aggregate of 83/100 on Metacritic? Are you actually serious? So if 83 is mediocre, what constitutes as just plain good or fun a 9? Someone needs to explain the concept of a scale to you.
Agreed
How did this get submitted? The name of the site is spelled wrong.
@NewMonday hurr durr nobody dose.
Who remembers that it scored 86 on Metacritic? Nobody dose.
Who remembers the best selling racing game that it's a sequel to? Nobody dose.
Who remembers how many Microsoft exclusives turn out to be commercial failures? Nobody dose.
Microsoft often releases in this window to great success. Who knows Windows like Microsoft? Nobody dose.
I would rather see Transformers Beast, but I suppose that would be the sequel anyway, right? :P
@wannabe gamer
What?
Dark Souls doesn't have to have any kind of textures for someone to do this. It's a MOD. It's user created content that's created and added in regardless of what's in the game already. GTA IV doesn't have 4K textures, independent modders added them in.
When uninformed gamers try to sound smart. I guess you wanna be someone who knows what they're talking about.