Dave wrote:teamonkey wrote:gilesgoat wrote:Besides have anyone ever seen ONCE SG appear on the banners/etc. of XBLA since it's been out ?
I saw it a few times the week it was released. I can't say I even register what's on them most of the time, to be honest.
Yeah, it had billboard ads up for 1 week. All new XBLA games tend to get that.
MS has more incentive to promote XBLA rather than individual games. They make money regardless of what game is purchased (though I'm sure garner them more royalties than others).
If they promote XBLA as a whole, peeps just need to find one game they like, regardless of what it is, and MS takes some cash.
It's like a video store in a sense. They don't care what movie you rent, so long as you rent "a" movie.
But it's like that with retail games too. MS only really heavily promotes those games it has a large investment in, and "mildly" promotes the rest. It's really up to publishers to handle that load. The same occurs on other consoles too.
Yes, very true .. but then again that becomes a problem for the developer.
The more movies are in, the more your "movie" is lost among all the others.
Eventually in time it may happen that people while trying one movie and
another they will stumble across your movie as well but meanwhile time passes.
The owner of the store, providing there are enough movies, will never
do too bad in business but for the individual movie maker that's all another story, you
need people getting YOUR movie not just "a movie" and you need
as many as possible and as fast as possible get it.
Of course it would be someway counter-productive for the store owner
to maybe focus "too much" on one movie unless it's a big seller.
Moral of the story .. we'll return back to "the usual problem", it's up to
the developer of the movie to do all his best to promote his own movie
the store is just there to distribute it and promote it a bit, if it does
not get an immediate peak that's strong enough then it's left by itself
and it's time to move to the new movie of the week.
The biggest the store gets the more movies are in the harder it gets
and sometime the more the quantity increases the less you can be
arsed to spend time watching all through that stuff to see what you can find.
It's a bit like when you are (well, were) in a tapes rental place looking
for a movie to rent for the week end and after you spent 1 hour watching
movie covers and reading about them you start to have no fucking clue
about what you wanted, what you are looking at and what's really good or not
Then of course, as it usually happens, 1 year later or so in some ways
you discover there was the "strafucking good movie" made by people
you never heard about, that nobody ever mentioned in no place if not
maybe some obscure magazine with not famous actors you never seen
before and that then makes you think "fuck me I wish I saw this before".
And then maybe you ask yourself "why this people never made ANOTHER
movie ?" and you discover that they never made any good money from the first one, they
sold too few of it, they all went bust and they don't exists/make movies any more
Thoughts then .. hmm ..
"You must hit big first and you must hit big enough" - you need the cash.
"Make as many movies as you can"
( very bad but true ) "as long as you find something that work re-use it until it totally stops to give you anything" - 1,2,3,4,5,6 ... sequel syndrome
"It does not matter what critics says about it all that matters is how much it sells"
"Can you make people see things differently ?" - "Do people (moltitutde of) really want to see things differently ?"
Does it all sound a bit like the movie industry really isn't it ?
If all that would work A BIT MORE reasonably better it still would be
possible to bypass all that a bit and, small developers, would have lot
better chanches to take out stuff.
But now I am really cynic and looks to me it really does not work that
bit more better that would be enough .. so .. so "well yeah, it's another
video store a bit new they opened down the street" ..
Cool .. nice .. back to work, the movie must go on.
"When we'll have those 50K copies we'll see again".
But meanwhile .. old .. new or whatever the fuck the goal are those 50K copies .. without those new or old it does not matter I won't be able
to make a second movie anyway
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too, especially for Rude Llamatron. 
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