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Yves Guillemot: "Vita Not Dead Yet AC:Liberation sell 600k"
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Betta Lines
Member
A what?
Liberation might be my most regretful purchase of the year. I hated it. The combat system is so simplified. I could press attack at times and just watch her cut down 3 people in cutscenes ...
The personas were pretty terrible. So fun to dress up as a slave and carry boxes and have less armor and weapons. So fun to dress up as an aristocrat and not be able to climb or jump, but you can bribe, weeeeeee.
I wasn't into the character at all. If this is better than AC3, then AC3 must be one of the worst games ever.
The game did look good though. The gameplay just completely killed it for me, and I wasn't expecting much when I got it.
The personas were pretty terrible. So fun to dress up as a slave and carry boxes and have less armor and weapons. So fun to dress up as an aristocrat and not be able to climb or jump, but you can bribe, weeeeeee.
I wasn't into the character at all. If this is better than AC3, then AC3 must be one of the worst games ever.
The game did look good though. The gameplay just completely killed it for me, and I wasn't expecting much when I got it.
Vita+PSP.
R_thanatos
Member
The battle system in liberation is the SAME thing as CReed 3 + touchpad chain kills
Also the persona made sense within the story and gave you at times different way to navigate the story. Some areas are painless if you are in one persona rather than the other.
Still the assasin persona is and will be the more usefull but this was a nice way tointroduce gameplay more on par with the series.
Also in aristocrat , you can charm, it's quite useless but the hidden umbrella was actually extremly fun to use.
Brad Grenz
Member
How many PSP games did Activision publish in 2012?
FreedomFighter
Member
I'm not really getting that from this thread. In fact, I think CoD and AssCreed exist on Vita because Sony had a lot to do with it in terms of funding. Neither handheld is getting tons of Western support. And judging from several other threads, all the Nintendo fans seem to be more excited about Japanese support anyways, which there is no shortage of.
pieatorium
Member
Can you bribe people in the slave or assassin outfits? I only remember getting that option as the lady but it could have been I was just never in the right costume at the right time.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
LOL. Wonder where 50-minute Monster Hunter quests fit in with that. This argument is complete garbage. Even if it had some validity you can pause/resume games whenever you want.
No quest in MH actually takes 50 minutes though.
GhostTrick
Banned
Dunno what to think about these number. Considering the low userbase, it's kinda cool... but considering it was bundled... well you know what I mean.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Well they certainly don't take the same amount of time as a race in Mario Kart. The argument about console-esque games on handhelds is full of shit.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Why didn't locoroco or patapon outsell the PSP GTAs,Crisis Core, Kingdom hearts birth by sleep,the need for speed games, EA sport ports, midnight club etc.? Nintendo handhelds sell because of their established franchises, it has nothing to do with what you're talking about.
That's bullshit. It's exactly the opposite. See PSP and it's games made specially for handhelds... Sold like shit.
Nintendo have the same franchises people have been playing for years. That's why it sells.
cj_iwakura
Member
Noteworthy games released for software-starved console sell well, news at 11.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
He's also ignoring games like Wipeout, Motorstorm RC, Super Stardust, Gravity Rush, Velocity, etc.
Beermeister
Banned
Correct.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Ignoring the fact the number includes bundles (and that they are shipped), that is an impressive attach rate.
Sony need a whole bunch of sellers like this before PSVita is resurrected.
Sony need a whole bunch of sellers like this before PSVita is resurrected.
The Empty shelf the pressed are still REACHING for. A damn mess. 600k is a great number GET DAT MONEY UBISOFT <3
Tell ha!
Tell ha!
R_thanatos
Member
yes you can bribe the corrupt officials in the assasin outflit ( and steal the money back just after
)OldJadedGamer
Banned
I am considered a +1 for those numbers but I didn't want the game. Played it for a few and didn't like it but I got it because it was part of the bundle. Got my bundle brand new for $180 and would have gotten it regardless of what game came with it... for me that just so happened to be Liberation.
Zero according to Gamefaqs. And none in 2011 either.
They changed the description from "PSP" to "PS Vita Games", but the revenue is almost certainly for both combined.
Poor Dat #Neaux1Curr
I've seen you post the same EXPIRED (almost always posted exactly word for word in more than one thread)PR statement about how you got said game you don't like for free with a bundle or cross buy so your purchase you made doesn't count. How cute.
Thanks for your purchase tho. Deny it all you want they still got Dat money. Developers don't give a damn if you didn't want it you still bought the bundle with said game inside. You can close your eyes so hard and wish it didnt count but it does. All I have to say about this mess.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
That depends. Would Sony be funding, advertising and heavily bundling their games like they did AC3L and CODBOD?
Looking at US sellthrough I'd say Lego Star Wars 3 3DS also most likely outsold both Vita games, Skylanders and Lego Pirates might have as well (at least AC3L). As have multiple Japanese games in just the west (SSF4, KH3D, Sonic Gen, Mario & Sonic).
diffusionx
Gold Member
What percentage of that 600k was in hardware bundles?
Software starved, huh?
Where are you looking at this? I'd like a peek too.
xxbrothawizxx63
Member
The game was bundled for the same price as the regular system so I'm not sure the numbers are really directly comparable to others or should be taken at face value.
Most important question of the thread honestly.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
creamsugar's NPD leaks:
3DS SW 3rd party LTD
500k
bird (Yes it's no.1)
400k
ssf4
logo sw3
kh3d
sonic
300k
mario sonic
skylanders
logo potc
200k
re:r
asphalt
logo batman2
rayman
cars2
150k
Vita SW LTD
Include bundle, and I have no idea which one is 1st party so I post all.
317k
cod
300k
u:ga
ac3
200k
mk
nfl
umvc3
u13
mlb12
mr:rt
100k
2048
lbp
r:bs
fifa
gr
golf
rayman
logo batman2
nfs
mgshd
persona4
little deviants
50k
others, not all
50k
ngasp
pasbr
40k
rr
lumines
30k
ro
katamari
disgaea3
sfxtk
20k
Palette Swap
Member
^^^ the lack of VLR on both systems makes me sad. People should buy this fucking game dammit.
To put things into perspective, if ACIII did 600k on WiiU, everyone would find it impressive.
Good for them but still no interest in the game honestly.
To put things into perspective, if ACIII did 600k on WiiU, everyone would find it impressive.
Good for them but still no interest in the game honestly.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Also worth pointing out, in November NPD AC3L and CODBOD were both under 100k unbundled ltd.
If AC3 was a heavily advertised and bundled Wii U exclusive, it very well might have.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Can we get Liberation on main consoles? Or at least a game featuring Aveline?.....Ubi pls?
Ah, yeah, I've seen those before. Cheers!
Given the disparity in install bases, the Vita's doing pretty well!
No, but they are more in line with the traditional Mario console experience.
There's nothing handheld about them. It just so happens that the Mario formula works well on a handheld.
electroplankton
Banned
lol
xxbrothawizxx63
Member
We would, but that doesn't put things into perspective at all honestly.
It was bundled for Vita and was the only way to get the white system.
The equivalent situation for the Wii U would have been the the system bundles with Assassin's Creed and.being the only way to get the black system.
Ah, 'lol'. The post equivalent of a long, wet fart.
It's the same in the UK, despite the install bases being miles apart, Vita software isn't as spectacularly low as you might expect.
CaptainTiptop
Member
Oh boy, you sure showed him.
He run out of excuses. Poor him. LOL
now imma need P4G to sell this much fanks!
Has a lot of issues.... It's an Ass Creed game with no Desmond bullshit... Take all that and make your assessment Lmfao
GhostTrick
Banned
It's not as spectaculalrly low as you might expect, but it's not as well as you might expect too.
You really didn't say anything.
The NPD numbers don't include digital sales, which Guillemot said is 15-20% of the total sales for Vita. That's a big chunk of the market missing from the data.
It's physical and bundles sold to retailers (aka shipped) plus digital sold to consumers.
I think it's good, and worth playing, but it's not great. I liked it better than AC3, though, which I thought was the worst AC game yet. And Aveline is the best AC main character, period.
Father_Brain
Banned
Real test will be whether Ubisoft announces another Vita exclusive of comparable scale.
Considering that Ubi is the only third party worldwide to make this kind of investment in Vita development, I'm doubtful that 600K worldwide will be enough to change anyone else's mind.
Considering that Ubi is the only third party worldwide to make this kind of investment in Vita development, I'm doubtful that 600K worldwide will be enough to change anyone else's mind.