Diablos said:
So? I can give the game the high review. It didn't get enough attention. Even when you read metacritic, at least one of the reviews admits it will be swept under the rug in the highlights section. It's like people acknowledge it as great, but don't care if it gets a fighting chance or not.
There's always high-profile releases. That's a poor excuse, imo.
What do you expect the gaming media to do, exactly? Plenty of reviews praised the game and basically said "if you're a PS3 owner, you should play this game" - what more are you expecting? Begging people to play it?
It's not the gaming media's job to promote a game - it's the publisher's (and Sega did a decent job of it, release timing aside). The media covers what they think their readers are interested in, and there's no denying that the higher-profile releases are, by their very nature, what more people care about.
The success or failure of a game depends more on the taste of the game buying public than anything else. People tend to want to bring up ancillary reasons like marketing, media coverage, etc, and while they are factors, none of them, save possibly universal critical condemnation, will cause a game to be pre-destined to fail in sales. And to blame either marketing or media coverage for the failure of VC, when both in this case were in fact positive, is just stupid.
