do games need to be good to sell

[Jeremy]

No, it wouldn't. Unless you advertised it correctly, as has been said, shit can become popular. Brand, it wasn't me who mentioned that, although that is definitely the way to play Goldeneye.

[Rocca]

I wouldn't call it horrible by any means. It's just not as good as people wanted it to be in certain areas.

I tried going in with no expectations. It just has that annoying "Girl Power" allure to it I can't stand. I'd probably say the same if it wasn't tied to Square at all, but it was just too hard to get into. Also, it got lame winning all the battles by mashing X.

[Frogacuda]

Britney's Dance Beat was ok. It could've been better if it had included all her greatest hits instead of just a few songs from the "Oops" album.

Dude...

Like... I don't even know where to start.

[MarsKitten]

People will buy human shit in a box if you advertise it right.

NOTHING has to be good to sell.

Case in point: star wars up till kotor aparently.

Some people equate a failure in style to a failure of a game. Not true, see Zelda: WW, great game but the style didn't appeal to some folks. I think FFX-2 suffers the same fate, I for one, like the idea of a FF: Pretty Pretty Princess Dress up.

[Ragnarok the Red]

Watching Superman 64, one of the worst games of all-time, fly off the shelves while working at EB Christmas of '98 basically destroyed my faith in the general gaming public.

Any other mediocre game that has become a best seller since then has not suprised me in the least.

[remnant]

Ok Remnant I have a very important piece of information for you.

Just because it didn't sell well in your area, does not mean it did not sell well. The only way I can see you getting your information is by hearing a "huh" from people around you every time you ask them about some game. Then you assume it didn't sell well, and go on this rant.

Go find some numbers. You'll find yourself mistaken and perhaps learn something. Right now you're just a douche in denial of anything outside his tiny little spot in the world.

Wait a minute. If this is true and games that don't sell well here and sell well somewhere else still make a profit then what about consoles. If the gamecube sells like crap here and sells well in japan then that doesn't mean it is not close to dying. However people still say that the cube is bad and doesn't sell where anywhere. The same goes for a game. Some games sell well here and do crap in japan and vice versa. So if a console sells well in one olace and bad in another it doesn't sell. If a game sells well in one place and not in another then it still sold well?

Explain the logic?

[Mzo]

ok, I'll explain.

By "here", he meant where you live, not the US in its entirety.

[MVS]

Game makes a profit = Sold well.

[remnant]

ok, I'll explain.

By "here", he meant where you live, not the US in its entirety.

Just becuase a game sold well where he lives doesn't mean everywhere else. His the hypocrite. Just becuase everyone here buys the same game doesn't mean it happens anywhere else

Publishers want the game to sell everywhere. A huge success in the U.S. and a big flop in Japan or the U.K. is still a flop. Just not as big. Ask Microsoft,Sega,SNK or any company succeded in one place and flopped in another.

" If you wanted to play Halo 2, you should have came to Japan. The line is like 10 mins long" Adam Sessler on XPLay TGS report.

[sethsez]

Sometimes I wish there was a way to physically smack someone upside the head through the internet.