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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
I'm not sure really  Football Manager (the soccer sim from SI) sells a million copies world-wide, and it is basically the same game as OOTP but just a different sport. The reason is that in Europe management sims are highly popular (FM always tops the sales charts in the UK), while the US seems to prefer action over strategy (the PC game market in the US is tiny compared to consoles, it's different in Europe). If the gamers in the US would share the passion of Europeans for sims, then I'd be driving a Ferrari... *lol* |
I'd say it's a mixture of people like the action over strategy and people just don't know about them. It's not just that they're not popular here, they are pretty alien to most people since very few US developers, who primary make the big US sports games, ever even broach the topic. And on the rare occasion they do make a management sim they half-ass it. A good example is a baseball management sim 2k sports made a year or two back. I think it was like Front Office Manager or some such. Needless to say your game trumped what a large studio like 2k could produce with what I assume is a lot more money and a lot more man-power. Probably one of the biggest piles of crap I've ever played.