Mafia 2 unlikely to be profitable, Pachter says

Such a shame, had high hopes for the game. Had alot of potential to bad you can't do anything but the missions :-(

If Mafia 2 was sold at retail for $25, I would purchase it.

What a ballsy thing to say, days after it came out.

Joystiq and all you other gaming sites, could you please stop posting Pachter's crap.

of course , what you guys expect from a game that use the same "GTA" idea
with a Mafia touch , nothing more than that , people are tired of those games.

Ed Harris is not pleased.

I think this style of game just needs something done. There is nothing different between all of these types of games, except something like inFamous or Red Faction: gangstas or gangsters shooting people, driving, and shooting people while driving. Gets boring after a while.

Played the demo on both 360 and PS3, the visuals looked better on 360 but the indoor combat seemed smoother on PS3. Reviews about the open world not having much was why I didn't preorder. It's like they tried too much to not be like GTA, where RDR embraced the open world mini-games and side quest mechanics. Might pick Mafia 2 up later tho.

Demo was terrible and I'm highly disappointed because I was looking forward to this game and avoided all vids and previews since the intial ones months and months ago.The character movement and driving seemed real bad to me.

Did anyone try the PC version?

Complaints about like of side-missions, lack of variety, and other issues are still valid, but I thought it looked beautiful and ran wonderfully smooth on the PC. It's one of the prettiest open world games out there.

Also, while it wasn't shockingly original, the combat was solid and fun. I was pretty impressed by the demo.

The game is awesome. It's a single player experience, but the world is open during missions, which is great instead of letting the CPU send you to each mission spot. People really confuse this with what a GTA open world is like. This isn't trying to be that. The final build was improved on from the demo so stop droppin' bombs on a game when all you have played was the demo. I will never understand the crap this game has gotten when other games that are worse, get higher scores and more praise. Give it a try at least but word of mouth from people who only played the demo and/or never played the game and are basing their views from others is just going to spoil it for others. I don't care if you pay $60 or $6 for this game, it's worth every buck for the unbias.

more useless comments from someone who thinks he knows what he's doing.........say this before the game comes out....say this when the game is being developed...no but he says it the first week it comes out....after the game tanks

cmon man!

any idiot can do this job........

"i can predict that COD Black Ops will sell" (no shit sherlock)

That is why the industry needs a more flexible pricing structure. You can't expect an average game to sell at $60 when there are a plethora of games worth the full price tag.

I preordered this game from Amazon and almost a week after release still haven't received it yet. Last time I do that. I thought it would be here last Wednesday/Thursday tops. I was very excited about it but the constant bad reviews which I usually don't listen to and the waiting for it has given me slight buyer's remorse. Maybe that will change when I play it

I played both RDR and Mafia 2 and both were pretty lackluster. Although I think Mafia 2 did some things better like having more of a story than that very shallow story that RDR had. Also for all that complaining about drving the car so much there was also a lot of riding a horse in RDR that was just as tedious.

The only reason I think RDR sold, wasn't because it was a great game, but due to the recognizability of the Rockstar brand, if Mafia 2 had that I think it would have sold more.

SIX YEARS?

I graduated from college six years ago!

Well, as somebody who has actually played the game, I definitely think most of the reviews were unreasonably harsh. It's not innovative or revolutionary, but it's definitely a good game - if you are even the slightest interested in the period (40's - 50's), or mafia stories in general, I can recommend it. Sad to see these predictions.

He said the same thing about Red Dead Redemption and was wrong. Why even care about what he says?