Fallout 4 sold 12 million copies and over $750 million in its first 2 days. While being the lowest reviewed Bethesda game, its by far the best selling.
How does this make you feel about the industry?
That marketing is more important than making a good game. You know, what the last 5 years of Gen 7 was about.
>>321694336
Bethesda decided to make a post apocalytpic Call of Duty in an open world and were financially rewarded for it.
>market the shit out of your game
>have a hype campaign that releases the game the same year it's announced
>use marketing buzzwords and add building in your game
>use the same assets from older games to save mony
>appeal to the lowest common denominator
glad I pirated this piece of shit
If you spend unlimited money on marketing, you sell
See: Splatoon
>>321694336
Marketing sells meme games, not the quality of the game.
Fallout 4 is a meme game.
The hype of its predecessors sold it, it will hurt the sales of the next game, regardless of quality.
A wide margin of the people who bought Fallout 4 were essentially buying the next "bethesda" game.
Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, its all the same shit with a different coat of paint. If you invest any amount of time in the games its the same chessboard with different pieces.
>>321694336
The only reason it was highest seller was the hype and the fact it was a fallout game. The fact that it was the lowest rated game is good. It shows that people realized it was a shitty game and hopeful Bethesda will learn we won't take their awful shit anymore. New Vegas 2 please!!
>>321694336
A high quality of a game doesn't determine the amount of fun you have from that game and the audience it attracts.
Witcher 3 was the best quality game released this year, yes. But not neccesarily fun to play for everyone.
I spent 400 hrs on Witcher 3 and 200 hrs yet on Fallout 4, I can clearly feel that I am having more fun in Fallout 4.
But as for which one was overall more high-quality, clearly Witcher 3, it had better graphics, story, soundtrack, side-quests and detail to everything.
>>321694336
it shipped 12 million
>>321694336
>Shipping = sold
okay OP
Catering to existing fanboys is not needed.
>>321694336
Marketing just works.
Feels pretty good that reviews don't matter that much.
it's bethesda - people were preordering that shit as soon as it launched. Fanboys were going to buy it based soley on the fact that it had "Fallou" in the title
>>321696720
This desu senpai
>>321694336
Marketing. It just works.
>>321699375
There isn't even the illusion of choice anymore.
