The ugly truth about state of UK gaming

[mikebeaver]

All we hear about these days is how Games companies want to bring thier product to the mass market, well titles like "Little Britain" are for the mass market, the strategy is working, all this means is that good games that are bought by people who care what they play are either imported or sell very few through high street chains as enthusiasts would rather go to an independent ( if there are any left!) retailer, who is more likely to be able to offer an informed opinion on the games that are worth playing.
Just a though, charts mean nothing these days, they only cater for the major retail chains, who sell anything to make a profit, even sh*t like "little Britain".

[hank splendid]

Did you know that the game charts in a lot of shops are not really charts. For instance GAME's charts are paid for. Publisher pay for a spot on the chart. I think HMV and Woolworths are the same.

In HMV they have Games of the Week which are supplier funded - the rest of the charts reflect sales across the company for the previous week and projected sales for new releases that week.

[10shu]

Maybe it s marketing issue???any okami advertising on tv in the uk???

Remind me of beyond good an evil...the game was really good but got not a lot of publicity on tv or in magazin and sold badly....

[shak bo]

Very entertaining Wraggs.

[Basil Zero]

okay, these may be the factors:

1. UK gamers are bad at gaming(in its entirety)
2. Final Fantasy XII overkilled all other games to have competition
3. Okami's not as big as its hyped up to be

[muffinman]

well after i complete FF12 i shall be looking into buying okami. My local game store worker imported it and so did all his mates so the fans already had it before it hit the uk.

[HaloJ]

Part of Okamis problem has been the marketing or lack of it. Gaming review sites such as GameSpot and IGN were bouncing off the walls when Okami was released in the States. Now 6 months later and there is not a peep out of anyone. I was excited about it 6 months ago but now I'm feeling apathetic. Such a wonderful game should have been put on the market with a fanfare rather than just plonking it on the shelf. Where as the tripe that is in the charts is there through either brand association or winter sales.

[goity]

I saw it in some biased Playstation magazine, where it looked like badly translated Japanese weirdness. Is it actually any good? Can it tell a story or is it too caught up in the paint thing?