It's not just about the sell
A rated m game can't be advertised for kids. It can't be a "family game" a lot of people who would pitch in on the game (advertising etc) will back out if it's m.
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A rated m game can't be advertised for kids. It can't be a "family game" a lot of people who would pitch in on the game (advertising etc) will back out if it's m.
Rated M for Money - TV Tropes
When video gaming first started, almost all of the games created were playable by children. Not to say that early games weren't enjoyable by many adults (they were), they just lacked the mature themes that would be unsuitable for younger …
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"M" rated games are not, in fact, guaranteed hits — only an average percentage of titles sell enough copies to be commercially successful, not at all much different from any other rating or genre in the market. Furthermore, general industry wisdom actually claims "T" for Teen is the most profitable rating, for the same reason that many movies target the PG-13 ratings bracket — these are the highest unrestricted rating of their respective scales, combining the most creative freedom with the broadest possible
Numbers show a game released as t sells more then the same game sold as m.
Gta is one of the most popular games of all time. Other m rated games don't sell like it
No it wouldn't. Again the rated m games people say sell good are the top 1%
This aew game won't sell 10% of any of those games.
M games do not bring sells. Again only the huge huge games sell well. Nosy m rated games done break even actually
Again look at the over all sells of m compared to teen.
Many M games DONT sell as well as teen. By all accounts outside of very successful m games.
Teen is better
Parents will buy the super popular m rated game.
They won't buy any random m rated game
Aew has NO where near the fan base of ANY of the games you're talking about
Deadspace has over 8 million fans.
Aew has maybe a million (and not all of them play games)
Again most m rated games DONT sell well.
Aew doesn't have millions and millions of fans.
Being dedicated means nothing. Doesn't mean that they will buy the game. Watching wrestling and playing wrestling games are no where near 1 to 1
Ellden ring. Yes, it was dark souls which is one of the most sucsesfull series of all time
Witcher 3. Once again yes, Witcher 3 was the 3rd game in the series witcher 1 and 2 were also rated m. Where is their glass shattering records? Oh that's right. They didn't.
Bioshock infinite had the most sells at 11 million.
The others had about 4x less then thay
Skyrim
Youre... kidding right? Skyrim is the 5TH main line game in one of the most popular game series of all time.
Their first game? Only had 3000 sales the first year.
The Highest-Selling Games Developed By Bethesda Ranked (& How Much They Sold)
From Elder Scrolls to Fallout, Bethesda is responsible for developing some of the highest-selling games known to the gaming community.
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Dead space
EA "Happy" With Dead Space Sales
Dead Space has sold roughly 1.4 million copies since it was released in October 2008, a figure that makes EA’s Glen Schofield “happy” and bodes well for its future as a franchise. Dead Space launched to critical acclaim and solid but unremarkable sales, managing to break one million copies sold...
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It didn't do great. Aew doesn't have a fan base that can pull 1.4 million without question.
What at all points to aew being able to for sure get 1.4 million copies sold?
No one played other skryims?
9.5 Million played oblivion. By your logic dead space games were bad as they sold less then oblivion.
Elder scrolls online sold 18 mil. That beats alnost ANY of your other games
Give an example of a game that GAINED counts when they went form t to m?
Youre showing sucsesfull m ratted games
no ones saying there are no sucsesfull m ratted games.
26 of the top 50 games ever released are Nintendo games.
You're the onenclaiming it should be M
Why should it be? Again you're whole point wss "they'll buy it anyway"
The fact that over 50% of the best selling games of all time are e to t at best shows that way more people buy those games then m rated games.
These people have access to data you don't have.
There is a reason mutiple games delay and work to get the t raiting
Their not doing it just cause. They know more then you do
A wrestling game has NOTHING to do with fighting enthusiasts
It's not the same category at all.
A wrestling fan doesn't instalty say "oh boy I need the new mortal Kombat" nor does a fighting game say I need 2k23.
Wrestling games are NOT the same.
And experts who actually know the business and making a living ij marketing disagree with your view.
Executives being executives do it cause they've done it you never made a game. Never looked up sales
You just say "no one cares about the raitng" (tell me what's the % of adults who would buy a game for their kid?) You don't know these people have data and experience in the area.
14 games are rated M
Of those 14 games
5 are call of duty games
3 are GTA
8 of the 14 are two series that are the exceptions, not the rules.
Meaning there is only 6 stand alone games on this list rated m.
Oh and other then gta 5 (which has like 150 mil sold)
The next m rated game has 38 mil and 30 mil for 4 of the m rated games.
There is a reason no other m rated game is even close to gta 5. It's an exception.
9 of the 14 are in the bottom are between 26-50
You don't care. Not nobody.Yeah
But these kids want to play as Darby Allin, not Uncle Howdy
The art style is less realistic, so it's only logical to fully capitalise on all the fun things you can do in this game that you can't do in WWE's simulation game. The most positive response to the game so far has been for the thumbtack video with someone bleeding everywhere. People really like those elements.
Minimising/eliminating blood for a T rating could make the game less appealing. If it's just a quick little resubmission, they might as well try... but really, nobody cares about the rating.
Do you think game companies struggle to get raitings becuse of.... nothing?
They don't know what their doing? They don't know more about advertising and other pacts that make T the safer bet for a good sell then M?
And how much did they sell? Do you have data on selling records and the affect of raitings on who will and won't advertise your game if m rated?
They have it. There is a reason they forl the Starr want a T rated game
It's not just execs being execs. It's data, research and marketing all pointing to t being better suited for them.
Once again you listed an exception to the rule.
By the way gta 5 has over 4x the amount of the BEST swelling call of duty games. And you could put all of the ones in the top 50 together and they still wouldn't touch gta v
Call of duty, and gta are exceptions. There the best of the best
Aew fight forever is not. It's selling will no way mimick or look like those two.
How do you figuer?
Do you think evrey kid who watches wwe also watches aew?
Like wwe sells millions of copies.
Do we have any proof aew has millions of fans? And not only thay Do we know their also gamers?
Like how many fans do you think aew has?
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Ecw hardcore revolution (a game with the exact same engine just model swaps) didn't break 1 mil and was rated m
The rated t game with the EXACT same system sold better
Way better.
Wrestling fans didn't Swarm to buy the game and ecw was WAS more in to M ratted content then aew is
Soooo like wwe who is a global company with billions of fans
And AEW who is a niche audience in America and possibly Canada?
You said they could rival wwe but you just showed that size matters.
It shows that aew doesn't have the number of fans wwe does and so zero reason to think they will be close
It shows that being rated m doesn't play a factor in getting more sells
They were the same game flipped. M raiting isn't the gate way to millions of buys.
You need audience and way more stuff
but you did say
And comparing it to dead space, GTAV
In fact NONE of the games you mentioned have less then 14 mill copies sold. You're saying becuse it has a dedicated fanbase it can compare to those.
It's true actually
The point is you're listing the most successful possible games to say any game can do it
It's like saying becuse Amazon starred in a garbage ant one can do it.
It's not true. Their stand out special unique things where millions of others will not get the same success
Stop comparing any game to the hugest games we have.
Just cause gta v got to 250m sales doesn't mean aew release will get it q
and they SHOULDN'T be compared
It's a one in a million shot.
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