PS3's Twisted Metal Hype Nonexistent, Why?

"With the Uncharted 3 Online Multiplayer Beta coming to a close tomorrow (July 13th) after being released on June 28th, PS3 owners around the globe are finding time to squeeze in their last few hours or minutes before they have to kiss the game goodbye until November 1, 2011. While the beta experienced a plethora of issues during the first 24 hours of launch, Naughty Dog was quick to have it up and running smoothly with little to no hiccups. While Nick can understand why the hype and discussions have been heated for Uncharted 3 recently due to the ongoing beta, Nick is left confused as to why one of PS3's AAA exclusives launching in less than three months remains nearly unheard of in the media. "

-TheGamerAccess.com

[Nick212004]

Hopefully the hype will pick up once David Jaffe reveals new details for Twisted Metal on the 23rd!

[M-Easy]

Very few non-shooter games are ever hyped this generation. You have a few exceptions with AAA RPGs but for the most part if your game is not about pwning noobs then it may sit on the back burner until release and people get to play it then spread the word, word of mouth style.

[Dart89]

I love Twisted Metal so im anxiously waiting for this.

[killajd]

The hype will come and when it does and the game really shows off!... The hype will last for yrs to come

[crematory]

they hype should be with resistance 3 the game is coming in less than 2 month:(

[killajd]

There's plenty of hype to go around!

[zinkabassy]

Damn, I cannot wait for Resistance game,.. I actually don't like many fps shooters on consoles,.. but Resistance actually feels so tight with controller,..(I think they add a bit of autoaim in the demo,.. because I really should not be that good with controller,..game feels so visceral and awesome)

[firemassacre]

question: WHO dosent love a maniac in a ice cream truck, in a clown mask with his hair on fire shooting other twisted freaks? god sony should advertise this game! but anyways, it has a strong fanbase, maybe they do not have to?

[topekomsi]

I'm a SWEET-FREAK, i will never forget playing the first twisted metal, and tm2 on ps1, then twisted metal black on ps2. I also loved head on or whatever the psp game was.

No matter how u slice it, this game cannot fail.

[FasterThanFTL]

It will be a miracle if it sells more than 200,000 copies in total
Same can be said for Resistance 3 which not even the PS3 fanboys care about.

Look what happened to Motorstorm Apocalypse, it badly flopped with only 140,000 copies sold so far:

http://gamrreview.vgchartz....

[firemassacre]

200k...please

[Miiikeyyy]

Resistance 2 sold over 2 million, I'm confident R3 will sell better.
And yeah, motorstorm Apocalypse is sadly Overlooked.
COD is the best selling game and that's pure shite, Sales don't make a game good.

[KwietStorm]

There's a clear reason why Motorstorm sales were hit hard, you troll. Why even compare that with Twisted Metal and Resistance 3.

[xtreampro_REVENGE!]

What are those reasons then?

[suicidalblues]

@REVENGE

Seriously?!? Maybe you heard about the FRIGGIN Tsunami that hit Japan? The resulting Worldwide delays in releasing the game because of event similarities? I hope you're just young and ignorant, cuz anyone over the age of say, 12, should feel like an ass.

[raztad]

Yeah, that tsunami killed off MS:A sales. What a shame. It is actually impressive the game after being delayed, and released w/o people even knowing (no ads at all) managed to sell some copies out of word of mouth.

On topic: I'm totally buying Twisted Metal. What Jafe has shown look mighty fun. Cant wait.

[DigitalRaptor]

The game is unreleased in Japan because of the tragic tsunami. It was also delayed from its April schedule to May in North America, and from March to April in the UK because of this.

Most of the sales were from European countries which had a great marketing campaign, but Yakuza 4 and Socom 4 came out in roughly the same time frame.

[HOSe]

apocalypse is the best arcade racer yet no one bought it, who cares. it has the developer backing it because they believe in their product and thats all that really matters.

[Solo227]

200k? ur Trippin...

They simply went too many directions Motorstorm... The first one was good... Pacific Rift was a good upgrade... But the lost alot of folks with the first one... And your forgetting the IP came out this general...

TM has millions of fans... The first one a guaranteed over 1 million sales even if it takes time getting there which it prolly wont..

[SuperLupe]

Ive realised that this year quite a few PS3 exclusives have had close to no hype: LBP2, Socom, Motorstorm come to mind, KZ3 too had a lot less hype than I would have expected. Not too sure whats the reason though.

[Firstkn1ghT]

Unfortunately their is no hype because the game looks terrible. Twisted Metal Black looks better than this. It's unfortunate indeed because I'm a huge Twisted Metal fan. The e3 gameplay showing the boss battle was painfully boring to watch. Nothing but Rinse and Repeat for 20 minutes. Terrible gameplay and graphics. Way to ruin a once great franchise.

[finnhima]

bitch please. No matter how good this game looked you know you would find a way to trash it somehow for the simple fact that its a ps3 exclusive. C'mon be real.

[KwietStorm]

Glad you don't speak for everybody.

[PirateThom]

I'm just not feeling it, it looks like a decent game, but not one I need to have day 1 or at full price... especially not with some of the games coming out around the same time.

[Machioto]

I kinda agree,I thing Sony should put some of these games on psn if they are at risk of not selling well and halve the price.

[Knushwood Butt]

I've never played any of them, but have to admit that the E3 footage didn't impress me at all. Visually, it looked pretty poor to be honest.

I don't know when the release window is, but I hope it's during a quiet spell because in the current state I don't see this standing up to much competition. Maybe a big fan base will help.

[Der_Kommandant]

Nonexistent?

I've been waiting 10 years for this game

I'm totally Overhyped

[Peaceful_Jelly]

I personally have never liked the franchise and I don't think that's gonna change now.

[maniacmayhem]

There isnt too much i have seen of this game. They keep showing the same footage of dollface vs sweet tooth. I want to see the other combatants and game modes.

I agree that the hype for this game is nonexistent compared to U3. I'm more pumped about Twisted Metal and only because i loved TM:Black and i thought to myself a new TM would kick ass online!

By the way i never got the online version of Black.

[TheLastGuardian]

Well they've shown plenty of gameplay but everytime some new gameplay is submitted to N4G the Sony haters submit news as quickly as possible so it gets off the front page before too many people see it.

To avoid thisou must pin the Twisted Metal tab at the top of the page and check the TM news everyday. You'll have to do a search for the game since it's never in the hottest games category.

Plenty of Twisted Metal gameplay here.
http://forums.n4g.com/Twist...

http://forums.n4g.com/Twist...

Stop sleeping on this game people. Please, Twisted Metal needs your hype!

[topekomsi]

I am looking forward to playing twisted metal online, it will def jack up the replay factor. I also wouldn't mind if they delayed the game till dec or jan, that way it could stand out, rather than be lost in a dizzying world of first and 3rd person shooters.

But like most ps3 exclusives, i'm sure it will sell like sh*t.

[KwietStorm]

Like most PS3 exclusives...what are you people looking for? Every game to be a 10 million seller? I don't understand this whole mentality. LBP, a new IP, sold 4 million. Uncharted, between 4-5 million. Metal Gear Solid 4, between 5-6. Heavy Rain, another new and risky IP, 1.5 million. Infamous, 2 million. Killzone 2, 2.5 million. Gran Turismo, over 6. 360 exclusives don't differ from PS3 numbers. Halo is the only juggernaut. If you feel certain games should sell more, fine, make an argument, but sell like shit?

[topekomsi]

"You people" what the fvck do u mean u people. I support almost every ps3 exclusive. Those numbers are not anywhere near where they should be. I wish ps3 exclusives got more sales. But don't come tripping at me. I was simply saying that ps3 exclusives don't get the credit they deserve. Jebus fvckin Christ!

[killajd]

On the discussion of hype. Has it been to long since they released a Tm game??? I mean if u dont play a certain name brand game for yrs and yrs and then it comes back out, is there supposed to be alot of hype or would there be more if there was more releases and people love the game and have been playing it every 2-3 yrs

[Prcko]

33k preoders only in north america!

[TheLastGuardian]

Of course it's underhyped. It's the most underhyped game of the year. Nobody likes what I like. Hopefully sales pick up once the rave reviews start pouring in. Sony better advertise the hell out of Twisted Metal. Why wouldn't they hype the best game ever?

It sickens me to see stupid games like MW3 getting more hype than Twisted Metal. This game deserves more hype than anything. Twisted Metal is going to be the best game ever or at least my favorite game ever. Forget the other games, Twisted Metal should be the first game you pre order for fall.

I don't understand why TM is getting overlooked because theres too many FPS games coming this fall. F*** FPS games. We get 100 new shooters every year but there hasn't been a new car combat game in years. I guess most gamers prefer to play the same crap every year.

[clearelite]

Sony hasn't really marketed any game strongly this year(except maybe Infamous 2). They spend a lot more money making good games, which I appreciate. They simply have way to many games coming out to spend big bucks marketing them all. It's all about marketing, just look at COD. But, like someone said above, most of the PS3 exclusives end up selling well anyway.
I would rather have the good games and let them spare me the cheesy mainstream marketing hogwash.

[THILLREBORN]

To add to this most people don't even know that 2 million is the number big budget games are going for to break even and were talking $30 to $60 million on budget. Anything more is all cake so depending on the budget of the game the goal will change but 2 millions includes $60 million dollar budgets. So if the game sells 2.5 million and the games budget ran $30 million then the devs and publishers are on cloud 9.

[blackburn10]

Never sure what people mean by hype sometimes. Doesn't showing trailers, talking about the game constantly, showing pictures from the game and giving you info constitute as hype. Isn't that what Insomniac and David have been doing since the games were announced. So what exactly is it you guys want? Some overblown party or gathering. Some stupid celebrity telling you the game is good. Or some exaggeration from the company telling you that it will be the greatest game ever? Are you saying that you need some advertising stunt and half truths from the company to tell you to buy it? The trailers alone for TM should have got your blood pumping for carnage. And after 2 Resistance games why do you need them to tell you its going to be good? Other companies put out one commercial for a single game and you still buy it but you need 10 commercials to tell you to buy TM or R3? Are you mindless zombies or something?
FasterTL and FirstKnight please stop trolling. It's getting pathetic.

[clearelite]

"Are you saying that you need some advertising stunt and half truths from the company to tell you to buy it?" That is exactly what constitutes effective marketing for many companies. Sell as many copies as they can by doing whatever is necessary, while undermining their competition in the process.

"Nick is left confused as to why one of PS3's AAA exclusives launching in less than three months remains nearly unheard of in the media" One shouldn't have to look to far to understand how this process works, yet it's still a good question.

I kind of like how Sony hasn't been whoring themselves out to the media. I think if I saw Bieber wearing a Twisted Metal teeshirt, It might ruin it for me a little bit.

[lazertroy]

Like I said gaming is Dying.

[darfreeze]

I also feel that the hype is nonexistent. I think Sony is focusing on Uncharted 3 so much that they forgot their other games. Resistance 3, Ratchet and Clank and Twisted Metal

[SuperDopetastic]

Twisted metal is going to be awesome!

[BitbyDeath]

Pretty simple really, the hype comes from the media, most of todays gaming media comes out of the US, US does not like the PS3. Therefore = less game hype.

Yes the 360 receives less news but when it comes it is positive, you don't see stuff like "Is Sony quietly removing a PS3 feature" on the 360 side.

This has been proven time and time again from the very beginning. Anyone can look and see how barely little media coverage the RROD got and if it were Sony with that issue we would have seen hackers, the US government and the media all trying to take them down, as they have already been doing for anything they can find so far.

Media controls the hype

[kreate]

maybe Sony pictures should do something about this.

[jetlian]

rrod
was really high 2-3 years ago now l got ylod and it went unnoticed by the media. MS make most of their products appear to be the best!

Sony thinks you should just understand. They really have no clue. Sony's real problem is japan. Japanese are way to traditional everyone knows their place and that doesn't work well in western countries.

MS has added more than taken away. hdmi,wifi,usb's, online functions. Sony took linux,usb,memory cards,soon component,ps2

[BitbyDeath]

RROD, if the 360 were a car it would have been recalled immediately. The amount of breaks is the issue not the fact that it does break.

As for MS adding more than taking away. All those functions you mentioned Sony already had. They were catching up, just as Sony had caught up by adding in Rumble in controllers and ingame XMB into it's firmware, all companies do it.

Functions being taken away also happens with every company/product, MS does not escape from this either. Do you remember HD-DVD? Or Blades? Probably a number of other things as well but really who cares?

[jetlian]

people
notice things taken away more than adding. No one will complain if you give them 5 cents extra change but try to take 5 cents and they will notice.

Sony has always had bad products lens errors on ps1 and ps2 were extremely high. The internet has made news travel a million times faster. Same thing in ylod and rrod. Both suffer heat issues.

[petko23]

@BitbyDeath

thats right. green day sang: dont want to be an american idiot, one nation controlled by the media

[JonnyBigBoss]

It was the most enjoyable game on the E3 2010 show floor, and was a blast at 2011 as well. It's on my top 3 second half of 2011 list.