Battle of the Bombs - Haze Vs Too Human

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hunter_alien said:

xman said:

hanafuda said:

Two exclusives that were hyped to the max, but met with hostile reviews and poor sales.

I confess that I paid good money for Haze upon release in Japan. I'm not even going to try and defend it, but at the very least I could have spent the time playing worse. I beat the single player, then got about 3/4 through in online co-op, which was reasonably entertaining. Then I sold the game (probably about a week after buying it). Ultimately though it was pretty poor.

I can't speak for Too Human.

Anyway, the games have been compared to one another before, and it looks like for good reason too.

Haze sold about 400,000 to date.

Too Human did OK in the US during the first week, but pretty badly elsewhere.

So which one will win? In other words, which one will sell the least?

If figure Too Human might win it. Shocking sales in Japan and Others, and at least Haze being an FPS meant it had some brief legs, where Too Human is some unusual RPG/action type game.

Bit sure if either qualifies as a bomb I think they didnt live up to the hype, but they will both sell close to a half million

 

 

If TH sells 500k and even if they would make/game 50$ they would only manage to make 25 million $.... it had a 40 million budget, so yeah its a humungus bomb ;)

It's usually a dollar for dollar split on the publishing deal.  If the dev budget was 40 million, then MS is on the hook for close to another 40 million.