Wow, you found that as biased? He is reporting on what the numbers say that will be publicly announced and quoted one person who said this:
"Iwata hasn't produced good results in recent years," Ace Securities Co. analyst Hideki Yasuda told Bloomberg. "He can't avoid being criticized."
All Mr Yasuda did is state the obvious, any CEO or President of a corporation that is in charge of two straight years of massive losses is going to hear criticism no matter who they are.
Besides the author of the article never once even hinted at what he thinks about any of this. He stayed quite neutral and simply reported on the news as it is. He did his job as a reporter very well with verifiable facts. If I missed something you saw as biased in that article please share what you think it might be. I like a good conspiracy theory, but I didn't notice anything here.
P.S. You shouldn't judge his writing when your one sentence is almost incomprehensible. (Sarcasm there, I bet English isn't your first language, if it is, then shame on you.)
@PixelAddict Interesting that they have the Xbox and PS2 sales for the other games but not for Double Agent. I agree that most likely put it around 2 million total sales and it was well reviewed with 7.5's to 9.5's
From your figures just for Xbox and PS (PC sales are very low as are the other systems, all less then .25 totals) it shows this:
First game total (Splinter Cell) 5.67
second game total (SC Pandora Tomorrow) 2.73
3rd total (SC Chaos Theory) 2.06
4th total (SC Double Agent) 0.96
5th total (SC Conviction) 2.01
That shows a decline in every game except 4 to 5 with 5 still under the 3rd games totals. If they dumb it down yet again it will go back to the 4th game totals in my opinion. They want the next one to sell like the first game maybe they should go back to what worked best instead of dumbing it down further and keeping a short 8 hour campaign.
They take away many features that made the game fun, reduced the SP to a very short 8 hours, 12 if you get the collectables, and then wonder why your sales are down? People will buy a good game no matter how hard it is, Dark Souls has sold close to 3 Million and is long, hard, and a newer IP from Japan that less people knew about over the Splinter Cell series. If you make a good game people will buy it, why do these companies keep taking away features, shorten their games, hold your hand, and still think the people that liked your series will stick around? Instead of dumbing it down and making it an action game, how about you return to your roots and make a really good stealth game? You know like the the first few games and have it last around 20 hours of story with another 10 to 20 for other things and keep the MP options. You know give us value for our hard earned money, then your game will sale, continue this way and you will kill the series and be lucky to sell 1 million as your fans move on to longer better games.
@SauhlGood So what if they can't make a game people really want to play like Skyrim or GTA 5? A restaurant can have the best service in town but no one is going to show up if the food isn't very good.
You have no idea what games I like to play other then I stated I liked Skyrim and mentioned Red Dead in another post as a great story game. I only pointed out what games are getting sales now as compared to 15 years ago and my dislike of one game the Witcher 2. I am sick of people acting like it is the best game ever, if it was people would have bought it like Skyrim or even Dragon Age 2 that even with poor reviews manged to out sell it.
I can't stand many FPS games as a general rule, I like story driven games for myself, if the story is good like Red Dead or Walking Dead (Telltale) all the better to me. I play mostly single player RPG based games because I do like a good story and it is important to me as a player that has been doing this since Pong.
I just didn't feel the Witcher 2 had a good story or a good ending and is way over hyped for what it really is. It is not a very fun game to play IF your not into the story at all. The game play just isn't very good to make you play it despite the story like say Borderlands 2 where the game play is good enough you don't really even care about how stupid the story really is most of the time.
This can also apply to the Walking Dead. The controls are horrible in that game and unless your into the story (I was) it is almost unplayable as just a game, you will not have fun playing it that way. That isn't a small complaint, it is a major one when it is 90% of a game like Walking Dead or Witcher 2. If you have to like the story to enjoy the game you need to rethink the game play and make that fun to play that way too.
@VojtassMy data was from today, no where have I found your numbers, where did you get it? 1.7 is a total sales number listed from IGN for both PC and Xbox 360 , VG Chartz data says 1.4 million from both, and Wikipedia list it as 1.7 total from both, your numbers are wrong. No where can I find over 1.7 total sales for both systems listed as a number. If you have a link to back that up share it. See for yourself.
@Cloud_imperium The Witcher 2 sold 1.4 million total on both PC and Xbox 360, Just cause 2 sold 3.06 Million on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. So does that mean Just Cause 2 is a better game? He is talking about sandbox games with stories not SP RPG games that have to have a story to even be called a game.
The other games are at least 5 years old with a few at 15 years now (Starcraft 2), I hope that have sold more by now and been played by more people after 15 years! Look at the top selling games of the last 5 years like CoD (any), Battlefield (any), Halo (any), Gears of War (1-3), starting to notice a tread? MP shooters that don't even really need a SP mode even if they all have one, each one, if your lucky, is only 12 hours long. They see the data and know how the majority of people play games. Skyrim is one of the very few games to break out with major sales comparable to these games that wasn't a shooter in the last 5 years (14.55 Million). What people buy is what they make, good or bad, that is the way it works.
The Witcher 2 is the most over rated game in history to me. You fans don't seem to understand that people like me that didn't like the story and it's end can see the games many flaws. Dragon Age 2 type level design backtracking over the same areas over and over, hours of yapping to get one item you need (with no combat the only good part of the game), mission that are not clear as to what to do at times, no fast travel, no mounts, a flawed level up system, crappy crafting, and the lifeless monotone voices of most of the actors can really put you too sleep if you don't like the main character. 810,000 was sold on the PC only, so please stop pretending like the Witcher 2 or CD Projekt Red is saving gaming, they aren't.
Don't misunderstand me however, I think they are a good company as far as how they treat gamers but there games are not that fun to play to many people, myself included.
@Kawaii_Uguu Like Shooters Much? You really think many people buy Halo for the story and not the MP? All it is a space version of CoD with a SP that is just about the same length as CoD or Battlefield. I do not think that many people really care about the story in any shooter ever made that has MP and am willing to bet it is also around only 20% that have completed SP campaigns of most Halo games, CoD's, Battlefields, or even Mass Effect 3 where the MP becomes the games focus over the SP for most players. Heck even Borderlands 1 and 2 many people have never finished and only like 5% or so ever reach level 50 with more then one character (per Randy and his tweets). At least the Witcher isn't a shooter but that game is very niche, you have to like the story for the game to work because the game play is only average at best. I didn't like the story and only see Dragon Age 2 level designs, crap crafting, crap level up system, and a story that stinks with an end that make the end of Mass Effect 3 look good, not an easy task! So sorry but no I really don't care about any of the games you listed, too many shooters already are on the market.
@SultaN-s Have to disagree with you I liked the main storyline of Skyrim more then all those games other then Red Dead, that was darn near perfect main story wise. Skyrim is only boring of you let it be, two years latter and I still find new things everytime I play it. Also the main faction quests are mostly fun and have cool stories with many different types of tasks in them, and so many side quests you may never do them all.
Dark Souls isn't a story driven game (even the developer stated the story wasn't very good and too abstract) it is pure grinding an area over and over hoping to get enough power to kill the level boss. Boishock is a FPS with a story but is still just a FPS and not as exciting to me since it is a corridor shooter but story was OK, The Witcher 2 has Dragon Age 2 level designs you grind on over and over on one map with an ending that makes Mass Effect 3's end look like a masterpiece and I found it so boring I fell asleep playing it a few times. Also unlike the games you listed (not Dark Souls) you can not be who you want to be and are forced to use one character only.
Really only Red Dead compares to Skyrim in scope and size (of the ones your listed) those other games are not really sandbox games as you are not free to travel to any area you feel like, you must follow the story as it is the main and really only focus of those games. Skyrim, Red Dead, GTA, Saints Row, Just Cause, Far Cry those are sandbox games to me, not the other ones you listed.
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