Board Thread:Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time discussion/@comment-3244796-20130324045045/@comment-25371179-20141229023537

Last time I heard, only 200k copies were sold - that was a while back though, but I imagine it hasn't increased that much since. Didn't Sly 2 alone sell like 2 million copies? That must have been pretty popular back in the day (unfortunately I don't vividbly remember).

I haven't yet played Sly 4 since I just got my PS3 for Christmas (the last one we had broke in an accident we had) but I've heard it's gotten great reviews, and it seems interesting enough. It definitely looks more "modern" with all the graphic updates from pics I've seen of it. I'm pretty excited, but to be honest, the only way I found out about it was because I've always been a hardcore Sly Cooper fan. I'm not really a video gamer or gamer for that matter, but there are a few that I enjoy and Sly Cooper is one of the series I love, so I ended up being a pretty hardcore fan. I've noticed lots of people on this wiki seem to be pretty big fans too...

So the sad part to me is that this was the main way we found out about Sly 4. It was like 8 years after Sly 3, right? Those 2 million people probably forgot all about it since I imagine most weren't that hardcore of fans. That's because it wasn't really marketed or advertised in any way. I've never seen any commercials about it, no advertisements once so ever. Maybe some tweets and posts on Facebook, but that was a while back. I would have loved to have seen Sony help out by marketing. One thing I've noticed is that even if you have a game that has the potential to be the best game ever made, it's the marketing that's the most important, because nobbody will know of that potentital unless you adveritse to them.

I'm hoping the Sly Cooper movie might help out a little bit, get people to buy the Sly Collection and Sly 4, but that's going to be a long time from now. I would love to see Sly Cooper get big and popular (again?), partly because I want to see more games and movies of it, but also because I think the series deserves it.

/rant