Xbox One exclusive D4 sales are reportedly very poor

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#1 DrRockso87
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Apparently less than 10,000 people purchased this game (Yikes!).

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=902813

That's really upsetting. I loved Deadly Premonition and am still looking forward to playing this game.

I have to say though, what the hell were Microsoft and Swery thinking? I know Deadly Premonition sold well on word-of-mouth but this is a first-party Xbox exclusive title! They should have advertised the crap out of it at E3, Gamescom, and Tokyo Game Show. Instead it disappeared and I thought it was coming out next year when they suddenly announced, "It's coming Friday!" the same week of announcing the release date.

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#2  Edited By Lulu_Lulu
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Well thats because "Movie Games" are cow's passion... Not lemmings.

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#3 SolidGame_basic
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would sell a lot better on Sony systems because we appreciate art

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#4 finalstar2007
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D4? never heard of it

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#5 freedomfreak
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That's because they were like "hey peeps, it's out tomorrow!" at TGS. Just like that.

They couldn't have done a worse job of getting people aware of this game.

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#6 FoxbatAlpha
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When you stealth launch a game this may happen. I want to play it but Destiny gets my precious time right now.

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#7 Cloud_imperium
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Damn , console pirates ... JK .

On topic : Did this game get TV commercial .?

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#9  Edited By Shewgenja
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@Lulu_Lulu said:

Well thats because "Movie Games" are cow's passion... Not lemmings.

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#10 tormentos
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@Lulu_Lulu said:

Well thats because "Movie Games" are cow's passion... Not lemmings.

No is actually it wasn't even advertise and dropped out of the sky also is a Kinect game,which apparently no even xbros want.

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#11 deactivated-5cd08b1605da1
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> Does a Xbone exclusive

> Complaints about sales

say wha? Oh really?

Scalebound and Sunset Overdrive will be next.

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#12 handssss
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they can't dump all the blame on advertising, I remember this clearly being one of the titles MS was touting for awhile before launch at events such as e3. No, the problem is it being a Kinect-centric game (even if it doesn't require it, it was designed with it in mind) and just being the wrong type of game for the system.

Not saying it would've done much better as a PS exclusive, but multiplat would've been the smart way to go. MS funded it, but from everything I read, they dug the grave themselves. Wanted to make a Kinect game and pitched to MS who accepted without even knowing the fanbase of these games.

The way the release date and such was handled was pretty stupid though, yeah.

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#13 speedfreak48t5p
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Maybe they should make quality games and advertise them well.

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#14 Rictshard
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I think they launched the game out of the blue.

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#15 REKThard
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there were no hype and it's xbox one so it's expected

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#17  Edited By JangoWuzHere
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@freedomfreak said:

That's because they were like "hey peeps, it's out tomorrow!" at TGS. Just like that.

They couldn't have done a worse job of getting people aware of this game.

Exactly, not many are prepared to drop $15 on a game they just heard about.

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#18 deactivated-5cd08b1605da1
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@JangoWuzHere said:

@freedomfreak said:

That's because they were like "hey peeps, it's out tomorrow!" at TGS. Just like that.

They couldn't have done a worse job of getting people aware of this game.

Exactly, not many are prepared to drop $15 on a game they just heard about.

The game was announced at E3 and how many indie games had success without any marketing behind it? I can think of plenty that sold through word of mouth alone. A big percentage of the Xbox community just cares about shooters. How many made fun of "movie games" like D4?

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#19 pelvist
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Probably announce a PC version to make up the losses soon then.

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#20 speedfreak48t5p
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@chronoschris said:

I've been watching this game on twitch TV and it's a very weird but hilarious game. :P Quite possibly one of the most or perhaps the only interesting games on the Xbone right now. I'd certainly purchase it if I owned an Xbone. I'm not really surprised it's selling like crap though. Xboners don't really play much outside typical shooters/action games and the occasional RPG.

Just like Cows don't play much outside typical Sony movie exclusives and the occasional indie game.

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#21 deactivated-583e460ca986b
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Has anyone played it? I may buy it out of curiosity. It looks cool.

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#23 speedfreak48t5p
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@chronoschris said:

@speedfreak48t5p said:

@chronoschris said:

I've been watching this game on twitch TV and it's a very weird but hilarious game. :P Quite possibly one of the most or perhaps the only interesting games on the Xbone right now. I'd certainly purchase it if I owned an Xbone. I'm not really surprised it's selling like crap though. Xboners don't really play much outside typical shooters/action games and the occasional RPG.

Just like Cows don't play much outside typical Sony movie exclusives and the occasional indie game.

Nope, PlayStation gamers love diversity and variety in their games. Every game genre is welcomed and accepted on PlayStation platforms.

Just like Xbox gamers and the xbox platform. We're not so different after all. :)

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#24 GrenadeLauncher
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But lemmings told me that they support their exclusives.

They're too busy waiting for their Halo ports.

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#25 chikenfriedrice
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That's crazy with all the advertising and the pre-confirmed release date

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#26  Edited By WitIsWisdom
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The decision to launch the game at a moments notice without building up the launch doesn't make any sense at all..... I need to look into the game a little more to see what it is about. Perhaps a pity buy is in store.. then again, maybe that is what they are looking for, and this is the greatest marketing ploy EVER. My guess is that MS paid them a large chunk of change to try an alternative marketing method to see the reaction it gets.

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#27 kuu2
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When you Nerf a key feature in your system (Kinect), you should not be surprised when games connected to it don't sell well.

You can't have it both ways.

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#28 Nanomage
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10k is horrendous no matter how you look at it,and its especially bad considering this was a game with some hype and even had a big slot in MS conferences,I hope swery can save this by putting it on the PC and make some money.

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#30 jg4xchamp
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@Nanomage said:

10k is horrendous no matter how you look at it,and its especially bad considering this was a game with some hype and even had a big slot in MS conferences,I hope swery can save this by putting it on the PC and make some money.

some hype: it's a swery game, they barely get hyped, it's niche as hell

big slot: what 4 seconds in the middle of a montage?

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#31  Edited By YD_11
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Considering i was "following" this game and didn't know it was releasing until what seemed like the day before... yeah i can see why it wouldn't be selling.

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#32  Edited By hehe101
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@speedfreak48t5p said:

Maybe they should make quality games and advertise them well.

Pretty much nailed it

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#33  Edited By HitmanActual
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@GrenadeLauncher said:

But lemmings told me that they support their exclusives.

They're too busy waiting for their Halo ports.

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#34 humanistpotato
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less than 10k is reaaly less, its sad. Even for a bad game, iw wouldnt expect this game to sell 500k+ copies or somethin but less than 10k? wow

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#36  Edited By ghostwarrior786
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@humanistpotato said:

less than 10k is reaaly less, its sad. Even for a bad game, iw wouldnt expect this game to sell 500k+ copies or somethin but less than 10k? wow

it got 0 marketing, stealth release, niche game so its not surprising its selling bad. viva pinata took 2-3 years to sell 500k and that was a bigger budget game. only games that sell on xbox are shooters, this game would have sold better on ps4

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#37 pyro1245
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D-what?

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#38 Salt_The_Fries
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A game which had its release date announced one day before the premiere, a game which is episodic in its structure, that isn't complete yet, that it's going to pick up sales' momentum thanks to good reviews and word-of-mouth, a game that it's going to get its boxed release once all the episodes are released digitally.

SMH.

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#39 ReadingRainbow4
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Well duh, it's on Xbone.

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#40 PapaTrop
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That's because they just came out one day, and said "this is releasing tomorrow".

It may have been the worst release for a game I've ever seen.

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#41 sibu_xgamer
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It's not the game. People just don't want anything to do with the piece of crap xbone and who could blame them? Any company making exclusive games for xbone deserves bankrupcy due to poor business sense.

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#42  Edited By Nengo_Flow
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@finalstar2007 said:

D4? never heard of it

this

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#43 MlauTheDaft
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I guess this means we'll get a PC version ;)

I kind of want to try it.

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#44 inggrish
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Wasn't really very well marketed or hyped up, that would be why. Hopefully it picks up though, it looks good.

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#46  Edited By gago-gago
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Is this game even sold in stores? It's suppose to be an episodic game like Telltale games so I expect most of the sales are digital. Was that included in the total for this $15 game? Anyway, this exclusive seems to have decent reviews. I'll wait till it becomes GwG. And by the look of it, the OP in the NeoGaf thread is a troll. I'm not surprised some here worship these Sony trolls.

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#47 Bigboi500
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Never heard of it.

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#48 Kaze_no_Mirai
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Pretty sure launching out of nowhere had a lot to do with it.

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#49 sailor232
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It's a great game, I don't think it is as wacky as most people make it out to be, if you watch anime then the weird in the game is very tame. Kinect works really really well in the game, so much that I have not touched the controller at all. I'm 4 hours in and enjoying it. A shame it hasn't done too well, it deserves its 8 rating.

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#50  Edited By StrifeDelivery
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Announcing the release date the day before it was released was a terrible idea.