Of course Sony wants the game, every game, to be a commercial success. The fan service commentary it's my own, it does not represent Sony expectations to this game, I think. I think this game has little appeal to anyone outside the Sony most knowledgable fandom, and Sony misjudged its appeal if it trusted on a new IP in a very difficult genre, and unproven to Sony, to support PS3 sales in this holiday season.
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Holiday BOMBA: Playstation AllStars Charts 38th Week 1 UK
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Of course Sony wants the game, every game, to be a commercial success. The fan service commentary it's my own, it does not represent Sony expectations to this game, I think. I think this game has little appeal to anyone outside the Sony most knowledgable fandom, and Sony misjudged its appeal if it trusted on a new IP in a very difficult genre, and unproven to Sony, to support PS3 sales in this holiday season.
Sho_Nuff82
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Classic Dante like UMVC3 or solid snake like in Smash Bros then.
Schlachtor
Banned
What?
TemplaerDude
Member
Those people who want this kind of game are certainly out there, I'm just a little shocked that Sony seemed to think it was a significant enough portion to not only make a game for, but to hedge a lot of holiday bets on.
Opus Angelorum
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I think it's more a case of 'we have nothing else to pin our hopes on'.
Really what are you talking about?
Schlachtor
Banned
This is an important fact. Along with a reaction of feigned supervise, honestly what was Sony seriously expecting. Which probably means it'll be a sweet ps+ freebie in few months. The platform convergence parity is excellent though, and could be seriously great when the The PS4 hits, which is when the Vita refresh happens too. Those sweet refreshingly!
Opus Angelorum
Member
I just can't believe the Family Guy game beat it.
A Sony All-Stars game without Cloud Strife, Crash Bandicoot, and Solid Snake?
Really?
Schlachtor
Banned
Actually (as I've already said), I would wait until 2012 ends.
Then, I would look at the ww numbers.
So yes, I actually believe the sales numbers will be alright (but nothing special).
These are Sony owned characters now?
Cool!
grimshawish
Banned
Twisted Metal GT
Could just make another GT game
Seriously though; it wouldn't impact sales - but theres not even a GT stage?
I didn't know whether or not Sony put Nathan Drake in the game because there's been very little press or marketing for it. I knew the character count wasn't that high, but I thought Sony would put in Jak or Daxter or whomever else over Nathan Drake.
I can understand the licensing for GT being a royal pain, but there's not even a WipEout or MotorStorm stage. : /
They're there too
Too bad the memory cards aren't priced reasonably.
Glorified G
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I have no idea why anyone would speculate how profitable this game would be without any knowledge of the size of the budget or how much sales they need in return for their investment while basing it on 1 week sales in a pretty bad market.
Your getting a tad ahead of yourself.
That damn world of tanks advert is all over the place, ive seen it more than huge titles like halo and ass creed 3.
Joe Q Public isn't going to know that, but those are some of the characters that defined the PlayStation brand and they are completely missing.
grimshawish
Banned
I have to begin to question the choice of developer.
I can understand the licensing issues of third party content; but seriously this should have been a Japan job.
Wipeout just needs the F Zero stage copied and pasted.
Are you sure you're not getting confused with Nathan Hale from Resistance instead of Nathan Drake from Uncharted? Because Drake makes a lot of sense compared to Hale
And Jak and Daxter are in the game
I was actually suggesting that when the game first got announced, but a Twisted Metal stage. Instead we got the stupid robot from the new Twisted Metal that didn't even sell.
Schlachtor
Banned
If "random 3rd Party Company" says "no", you won't get shit.
It's simply as that!
You can actually "feel" the excitement in his posts
The Paris level from Twisted Metal 2 has a stage in this game.
McBradders
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Dante, Big Daddy... Raiden.
3 characters with little if anything to do with PlayStation and its branding compared to three that actually helped put that shit on the map.
Come on man, defend the game all you want but ignoring three of the biggest names on the PlayStation map, Sony owned or otherwise, is completely silly and their exclusion utterly baffling.
Well there's a lot of things they didn't get right in my opinion. Ignoring characters, they could have at least done stages.
My main gripe though is the single player. Sure the game might play all right, but the single player is completely half baked and pointless. They may as well not even bothered. It's just a bog standard Arcade mode.
I really would have liked something like Subspace Emissary. In an ideal world I would have gotten something like Edge Master Mode. Single player is severely lacking
I know that, and so does Sony. Maybe they should've done the paperwork before putting this game into production.
Pachterballs
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um, I don't even follow the game and I know who's in the game. Nathan Drake is from a pretty premiere franchise on ps3. so yeah
Shorty11857
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Sad it's not doing well because the game is actually pretty fun. Picked it up yesterday and enjoyed what I've played of it
Nope. I originally thought that Nathan Drake would be a tad too realistic or unfitting for a Smash type of game. Looking at the full character roster, it seems like there's a lot of clashing styles that seem weird to be together. Just my opinion though.
Moral Panic
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Haven't seen a single advert for it. Before this thread I didn't know it was even out.
Those characters are pretty clearly in there as advertisements. Dante for DmC, Big Daddy for Bioshock Infinite (yes, I know he isn't in that game), and Raiden for Metal Gear Rising. Outside of Konami and MGS none of those other companies have characters that really defined PlayStation.
I dont on a PS3 but when speaking to a friend who is PS3 gamer if he was interested in the game he really didnt give a damn. His response was who is in this game. The dude hasnt played Smash Bros since N64 days but could name a bunch of characters from smash bros but with this one or he could think of was a few and I think thats the problem. Sony doesnt have the recognisable characters or icons to have a game like this.
Yep. I think they thought Last of Us would make the holiday. Once that dropped back, there was nothing left to replace it.
No I just say stuff to hear my own voice
McBradders
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Obviously (and already this dilutes any messaging they were attempting with the roster).
"HEY KIDS REMEMBER DANTE?"
"Yeah!"
"HERE HE IS!"
"...wait, what?"
Schlachtor
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Paperwork for what? They have enough other characters as you can see.
The game is good enough.
I was interested at first but lost all interest during their marketing period. I’m probably in the minority here so I’m not saying they should have done anything different, but it feels like Sony doesn’t know how to market games (to me).
For my taste, Sony spammed their own blog way too much with marketing for their game. It felt like they don’t have any real means to market this games. I personally want to be surprised by games and not know everything beforehand. Again: Not saying they should have done everything differently, just that the way they did it turned me off.
For my taste, Sony spammed their own blog way too much with marketing for their game. It felt like they don’t have any real means to market this games.
I personally want to be surprised by games and not know everything beforehand. Again: Not saying they should have done everything differently, just that the way they did it turned me off.That memory card comment already proved that.