Sentences with phrase «selling game genre»

FPS is now the dominant and best selling game genre on consoles.

Not exact matches

The glory days were over, and the sixth instalment sold only a fifth as many games as Guitar Hero 5 in its first week, and Activision shut down Guitar Hero operations in February, laying off 500 people and saying the move was «due to continued declines in the music genre.»

Monster Hunter Tri sets a new bar in the action / adventure genre with the introduction of new features and game play elements as the multi-million unit selling franchise makes its debut on the Wii system.

The sort of endless runner with action elements genre can be a tough sell for some folks when there's a ton of those games out there.

You can't decide what people like, or even if the game is gonna be any good, I think it probably will though, the best thing about other platforms is variety, the Wii U doesn't have that, if Bayonetta 2 doesn't sell, I wouldn't be surprised, as the first Bayonetta wasn't really appealing to most people and did pretty poorly, Nintendo need to bankroll all kinds of different genres, though this is exclusive, don't expect it to do better than most 3rd party multiplatform games.

Sega hasn't specified which titles will be cancelled, but it seems that with the failure of such original IP games as Binary Domain, Sega's attempt at a Western - styled third - person shooter, to sell has made the company gun - shy about trying to create original IPs in Western - dominant genres.

Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year.

It is also a clear sign to developers that even with a 60 Million dollar budget and all of the assistnce from Sony's top suits, this game could not sell in the most popular genre in video gaming today.

PS gamers do like variety, and any number of titles can sell from a broad range of genres and styles many with their own unique attributes.

In fact, if you go to http://marketplace.xbox.com and sort Indie Games by Best Selling All - Time you'll see a hundred games from all genres that have sold well.

Sony does not rely on ONE game, ONE franchise and ONE genre to sell.

Built around Masahiro Sakurai's crazy dream of making a four - player brawler at a time when the fighting genre wasn't selling particularly well, Super Smash Bros. carved out it own place among both fighting and party games by introducing unique mechanics that catered to fans of both.

The best - selling video game genre of 2015, and for good reason!

Now I know these are kind of dead points by now as Greenheart Games has had so much publicity thanks to their DRM that they'll likely sell more copies than they had previously expected, but for the average indie who's not making some ultra clever mirror holding statement (one that only has this kind of impact in this game genre) then creating a broken version of your game may not be in your best interests.

Sid Meier is the legendary designer behind many different computer games in a wide variety of genres, and he's perhaps the only video game designer who can sell more copies by putting his name into the title of the game.

The Resident Evil franchise, which pioneered the horror genre in video games, has sold 60 million units since 1996 and spawned a series of successful motion pictures that have grossed over $ 900 million worldwide.

The game sold more than 10 million units, making it the second most popular game for the Sony PlayStation, and helped to popularize the Japanese role - playing genre across the globe.

«The Witcher 3 will be a crowning achievement for the RPG genre, but I am also proud to announce that the number of previous Witcher games sold has surpassed 5 million copies.

I also don't think that having a lot of games in a genre on a platform will cause later games in that genre to sell less.

PS4 has been smashing games of all genres left right and center, Switch looks to be following that trend and in its first year has sold nearly a third of what X1 has managed in 4 years?

While the game is sold as a straight up strategy game, given the survival element, They Are Billions feels like a hybrid between the RTS (Real Time Strategy) and Tower Defence genres.

Nine years on, high profile bike racing games have been few and far between compared to car games, as publishers are seemingly less willing to support what they perceive as a specialist genre compared to the relatively easy sell of a car racing game.

Please promise us that SEGA will keep an eye on the soon upcoming Double Dragon 4 because if it sells well, then SEGA knows that modern gamers still love the beat»em up genre.

The short version of this step is that I used to preach that the world did not need another match three bubble popper, Mahjong game, or card game, but all of those game types have continued to sell in the Casual game space, and are even beginning to be considered genres.

You'd be hard pressed to find a better game of this sort on Vita without invoking a certain Persona we'll save you the trouble of selling you on, so unless you're adverse to the genre or universe I'd wholeheartedly recommend you pick it up.

Moreover, the game has set a new record as the fastest - selling new IP in the survival horror genre.

Sure it will sell a lot this year too but if the next release in the series doesn't do more to improve and change the current status of the game I actually think it might be the start of the end of COD as king of the multiplayer shooter genre.

The characters really help sell the story plot and make you care whether or not this is a city worth saving, which is a rare thing for a game of this genre.

Whole companies and genres are built around this model of selling game content now.

Most games in this genre tend to sell poorly.

The game sold more than 10 million units, making it the second most popular game for the Sony Playstation, and helped to popularize the Japanese role - playing genre across the globe.

The first game of the series — an adventure quest in the genre of interactive cinema with elements of QTE about the possibility of changing the future — has become one of the best - selling games on the PlayStation in 2015.

The franchise that has defined a genre and sold over 130 million units across all of its games is getting a special anniversary.

In Game Dev Story, players run a development studio, hiring / training / firing staff, shipping games for different platforms and genres (players get to title them), see how their releases are reviewed and how many copies sell, and more.

This is perhaps why the single - player RPG genre isn't selling as well anymore, except for games called Final Fantasy or games that have the Star Wars license.

It was announced by Paradox Interactive, a publisher of best - selling games across many genres and platforms, that Cities: Skylines, the smash - hit city - building game from Colossal Order, will be released for PlayStation 4 on August 15th, 2017.

Release Date: Nov 9, 2010 Developer: Treyarch Publisher: Activision Genre: Action, First Person Shooter Theme: Modern Military Rating: M for Mature Game Modes: Single player, multiplayer DLC / Expansions: First Strike Call of Duty Black Ops is the seventh title in the best selling series of action games.

Whilst the controversy often foreshadows this game it would very much sell the game short to say that this was nothing more than a quick cash in on the genre.

With games like Assassin's Creed II and Grand Theft Auto 4 selling in the several millions, the people have expressed their love of the sandbox genre.

Here are the best - selling games of 2014 from every genre and console.

Unfortunately, popularity in the music - game genre had waned greatly by the time Rock Band 3 hit shelves, so while the game sold a decent amount, the franchise soon withered.