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PEEPer0nni on 03 July 2017

How is Lucky's tale or Cuphead AAA?



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S.T.A.G.E. on 03 July 2017

LOL Greenberg knows exactly what the media is talking about. This has to be a joke. They mean big AAA releases. This year the Xbox really has none outside of Forza.



jason1637 on 03 July 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
"“It’s tough because if you show too many AAA games, people are gonna be like ‘oh man, all you’re showing us are big blockbusters, we want to see more variety and diversity’"

Right - but no one has said this about Microsoft, especially nowadays. Hell, Sony basically admitted that their biggest marketing push - indies, were no longer important and that they wouldn't cover them much in e3...and no one complained.

I mean jesus, calling State of Decay, Super Lucky, and Sea of Thieves blockbusters?

The first State of Decay sold 2 million units.

SoT has a huge budget so it will probably get lots of advertising.

Super lucky ¯_(ツ)_/¯



PEEPer0nni on 03 July 2017
jason1637 said:

SoT has a huge budget so it will probably get lots of advertising.

 

Looking at the footage it doesn't seem like that's true.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 03 July 2017
jason1637 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
"“It’s tough because if you show too many AAA games, people are gonna be like ‘oh man, all you’re showing us are big blockbusters, we want to see more variety and diversity’"

Right - but no one has said this about Microsoft, especially nowadays. Hell, Sony basically admitted that their biggest marketing push - indies, were no longer important and that they wouldn't cover them much in e3...and no one complained.

I mean jesus, calling State of Decay, Super Lucky, and Sea of Thieves blockbusters?

The first State of Decay sold 2 million units.

SoT has a huge budget so it will probably get lots of advertising.

Super lucky ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'll admit I don't know much about State of Decay 1 but didn't it take 1 year and 4 months to reach 2 million? It got 1 million in like 4 months. What was the price of the game when it originally launched? I don't believe it was 60 or 50$. 

Yeah I guess the advertising has been big. But I don't think the advertising will be big anywhere *except* Microsoft events. The budget for the game seems incredibly small for a first party tbh.

 

It's also worth mentioning that in the 7th gen Microsoft had set up a lot of 1st tier exclusives like Halo, Gears and Fable,and 2nd tier exclusives like Halo Wars, Crackdown. But Halo Wars sold pretty badly on the One, even their big games are selling less - it's likely it will sell worse.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 03 July 2017
jason1637 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
"“It’s tough because if you show too many AAA games, people are gonna be like ‘oh man, all you’re showing us are big blockbusters, we want to see more variety and diversity’"

Right - but no one has said this about Microsoft, especially nowadays. Hell, Sony basically admitted that their biggest marketing push - indies, were no longer important and that they wouldn't cover them much in e3...and no one complained.

I mean jesus, calling State of Decay, Super Lucky, and Sea of Thieves blockbusters?

The first State of Decay sold 2 million units.

SoT has a huge budget so it will probably get lots of advertising.

Super lucky ¯_(ツ)_/¯

2 million is mid tier in terms of sales and that was on the 360. The Xbox one version might not sell as much with a smaller install base. Luckily the game Will also be on PC to recoup from the lower sales.



S.T.A.G.E. on 03 July 2017
PEEPer0nni said:
How is Lucky's tale or Cuphead AAA?

Yeah... if it was aaa cuphead wouldn't cost $20. Lol Microsoft wants to prove they've got heavy hitters outside of halo and gears but they are truly fooling their hardcore fans and themselves.



jason1637 on 03 July 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
jason1637 said:

The first State of Decay sold 2 million units.

SoT has a huge budget so it will probably get lots of advertising.

Super lucky ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'll admit I don't know much about State of Decay 1 but didn't it take 1 year and 4 months to reach 2 million? It got 1 million in like 4 months. What was the price of the game when it originally launched? I don't believe it was 60 or 50$. 

Yeah I guess the advertising has been big. But I don't think the advertising will be big anywhere *except* Microsoft events. The budget for the game seems incredibly small for a first party tbh.

 

It's also worth mentioning that in the 7th gen Microsoft had set up a lot of 1st tier exclusives like Halo, Gears and Fable,and 2nd tier exclusives like Halo Wars, Crackdown. But Halo Wars sold pretty badly on the One, even their big games are selling less - it's likely it will sell worse.

I was the fastest selling XBLA game it's first week and it took a while to hit 2 million but those sales came from word of mouth alone so that pretty good.

Considering that this game is getting multiplayer a bigger budget and is coming out early next year so it won't have much competition it could do very well.



jason1637 on 03 July 2017
S.T.A.G.E. said:
PEEPer0nni said:
How is Lucky's tale or Cuphead AAA?

Yeah... if it was aaa cuphead wouldn't cost $20. Lol Microsoft wants to prove they've got heavy hitters outside of halo and gears but they are truly fooling their hardcore fans and themselves.

A game doesn't need to be AAA to be a heavy hitter.



S.T.A.G.E. on 03 July 2017
jason1637 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Yeah... if it was aaa cuphead wouldn't cost $20. Lol Microsoft wants to prove they've got heavy hitters outside of halo and gears but they are truly fooling their hardcore fans and themselves.

A game doesn't need to be AAA to be a heavy hitter.

A you're right. AAA isnt always highly anticipated (Crackdown), while  a Indie game can be highly anticipated (Cuphead for Microsoft).