I never played the original. Isn't this game supposed to be really hard?

It doesn't even come out for another month, so I don't think Galaxy is going to overshadow it all that much. It's going to get the same amount of attention as any other Wii game gets.

I was thinking about picking up Metroid: Other M instead of this...I'll probably buy Sin & Punishment eventually, either way. I bought the first on the Virtual Console.

" I was thinking about picking up Metroid: Other M instead of this...I'll probably buy Sin & Punishment eventually, either way. I bought the first on the Virtual Console. "

This is one of those games that on its best day still has limited appeal. Blaming its inevitable low sales on the console its on or another game coming out that plays nothing like it is just kind of lazy.

That's why this was delayed a month for NA while Galaxy was delayed a month for PAL, I would guess.
 
 
 
Good thing I got my copy. Excellent game.

This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN.

I like to sin and I like to punish, but I also like to galaxy.  Hmm.

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Explain. "

" @Meowayne said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Explain. "

It's a niche shmup that's a sequel to a game that wasn't released in the West besides as a VC title about 10 years after it came out in Japan. Who are they expecting to buy this? "

" It doesn't even come out for another month"

" @AgentJ said:

" It doesn't even come out for another month"

What? I saw it in the store a couple of days ago... "

" @Icemael said:

" @AgentJ said:

" It doesn't even come out for another month"

What? I saw it in the store a couple of days ago... "

Well, in the states "

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Luckily, Nintendo doesn't see the need to discriminate against games based on their genre. "

Sin & Punishment 2 is pretty much a dead man walking despite its close proximity to Galaxy 2. It's an obscure game from a franchise that is foreign to almost everyone. I plan on picking it up, but very few will buy it.

" @Willy105 said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Luckily, Nintendo doesn't see the need to discriminate against games based on their genre. "

Instead it's likely to give a limited run on a game and stagger the releases through the territories rather than putting it online for a lower price and potentially across all territories at once like the majority of XBLA and PSN releases. "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Luckily, Nintendo doesn't see the need to discriminate against games based on their genre. "

Instead it's likely to give a limited run on a game and stagger the releases through the territories rather than putting it online for a lower price and potentially across all territories at once like the majority of XBLA and PSN releases. "

Yeah, where games go to die.    A physical release is much more dignified, to the developers and the consumer, even if Nintendo dislikes releasing games at the same time in different regions (for some inexplicable reason). "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Luckily, Nintendo doesn't see the need to discriminate against games based on their genre. "

To obscure to be really thought of as a blockbuster title.  I bet Nintendo figures this game might find a audience but knows it would never be a big sales maker.   Mario Galaxy 2 doesn't effect its sales in any way in my opinion.

I'm shocked that nintendo would let a casual friendly title overshadow one for the core gaming audience.  
 
shocked.

" @Willy105 said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Luckily, Nintendo doesn't see the need to discriminate against games based on their genre. "

The game is reportedly 4 hours long. When people say they'd like Muramasa, an 18-hour game, to be ported and released on Xbox Live Arcade, I laugh just as much as the next reasonable guy, but this... this should've been downloadable. The steep price is going to hurt sales, both in the short run and the long; especially when you take into consideration how slowly Wii games drop in price. "

" @Willy105 said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" @Willy105 said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" This seems like something that would be on XBLA or PSN. "

Luckily, Nintendo doesn't see the need to discriminate against games based on their genre. "

Instead it's likely to give a limited run on a game and stagger the releases through the territories rather than putting it online for a lower price and potentially across all territories at once like the majority of XBLA and PSN releases. "

Yeah, where games go to die.    A physical release is much more dignified, to the developers and the consumer, even if Nintendo dislikes releasing games at the same time in different regions (for some inexplicable reason). "

Implying that being completely downloadable is showing a game a lack of dignity seems incredibly outdated. Especially considering there never was and never will be any dignity in the video game market. Granted, you see the services now and you see games that don't justify retail but at the same time, you look at the Virtual Console and you see all the titles released there, including the last Sin and Punishment meaning that it's likely that crowd, the ones who would actually be interested in this game, wouldn't be too put off by the download. "

" @Willy105: People didn't ask for MW2 to be downloadable because it has multiplayer, all kinds of voice acting and assets that Muramasa did not, regardless of length and in terms of franchise, the last MW game was disc based while the last Sin & Punishment game was VC based.
 
I don't know if you're being a pedant or what about Virtual Console only being for old games and waiting for me to say 'Well, what about Wii Ware' or what. Just because there's an arbitrary division in Nintendo's downloadable market, it doesn't make it any less viable as a retail option and this would be perfect for VC considering that even though Sin & Punishment is a decade old, that was the first time many people in the West played it so that would be the perfect place to release the sequel considering that it is such a niche title. Considering the level of disassociation between the way Nintendo market the Wii and this kind of game, it's likely that if those people are interested enough that they downloaded the first one, they'll download the second meanwhile everyone else is likely to either pay it no interest or it'll be swamped in shelf space by whatever else is being released that week. "

" @Willy105: If by sent to die, you mean given the largest chance of being played, then yeah.  There's a mass appeal to MW2 though. It appeals to plenty of people. Sin & Punishment doesn't. "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" @Willy105: If by sent to die, you mean given the largest chance of being played, then yeah.  There's a mass appeal to MW2 though. It appeals to plenty of people. Sin & Punishment doesn't. "

Other than MW2 being set in a realistic Iraq/Afghanistan War setting, and Sin and Punishment is sci-fi mixed with religion, they are still shooters. Sin and Punishment is also more casual friendly because of it's straightforward and simpler controls.  I'm sure given the chance, Sin and Punishment can be as big as Bioshock. "