The Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has just released their findings that Xbox 360 games with more achievements generally make more money and sell more copies.
They found "that titles that incorporate online elements into their Accomplishments generate 50% more money than those that do not."
This finding is a bit misleading, however, because not all games have online elements in the first place. It could be that people are more willing to purchase a game if it has an online element.
Furthermore, they claim that "game titles can generate up to 50% more revenue by including Accomplishments with Viral Marketing aspects (User Generated Content, Community or Customization Accomplishments)."
Again, it could just be that these games include this content, which helps drive sales. It isn't necessarily the achievements that are driving higher sales numbers.
Regardless of causality, achievements are definitely awesome and help drive people to play games more than they would without them.
TheFeed knows that we'll choose the 360 version of a game over a PS3 version because we might as well earn some sweet gamerpoints in the process.
N4G: Xbox 360 Achievements in Games Leads To Higher Review Scores, Increased Sales
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Man It SUCKS
get a clue game companies, you have to kno if your game is going to suck or not, cause i can tell within the 1st 10 minutes of playing, you spent years making it, you cant be that blind
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i mean first comment its like ps3 sucks. have u ever played ps3 and nothing was said bout ps3 until u so just shut up. unless you own all systems you cant say anything because you probably have to ask mommy for a ps3 next year for christmas or your bday so just shut up.
Best thing about the PC version is Dedicated servers.
I'm not much of an achievement guy, I find them not rewarding at all. They are more of a bragging rights thing and I can earn my bragging rights by just playing better. Thats just my two cents.
so many variables to consider. why not just make the same game with 1000 achievements at 1 pt each, as you are sure to sell this game over the game with 1 achievement for 1000 pt.
i think better games are just gonna sell better regardless of the amount of achievements and making this correlation is a waste of time.
But I wont do 360 over PC for acheivments because mouse and graphics come first.
I'm just saying......
I just like to unlock acheivements because it feels like I've actually achieved something, and just because they're fun to get.
it's just my opinion and when you say that they're for "bragging rights" then you're trying to take away from the simple joy you get when you unlock the achievement you spent 5 hours in Matchmaking to get.
20,0000G for discouraging free speech-
You're so rad!!!!!!
As for acheivements, I think they're great. But some games do make it too difficult to obtain them. They add replayability to games that DO have online and otherwise. I personally get as many as I can not for gamerscore, but for the fact that it shows you've completed the game to it's fullest. They also keep people playing the games for as long as possible, especially for online play. If it were'nt for acheivements, I wouldn't play online half as much as I do.