I have my doubts about The Conduit's first sales

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intro94 said:

WereKitten said:

Actually the thing that worries me a little about that engine is that it's very general-purpose. After all, they plan on developing a gladiator game leveraging it.
I'm sure that at Bungie they had to heavily specialize Halo's engine for the needs of split-screen multiplayer FPS action, but at HV they are so much smaller that they probably can't afford it.
They have a much greater return over every man-hour spent on the engine if it's really modular and reusable, even at the cost of some performance.

edit: good news about "The Grinder" having split screen. I guess that will come with an updated version of their engine.

MOH 2:No local, but online.However, terrible psp graphics and physics. horrid sales.

I agree with most of your post but I feel the need to correct this point. MOH:H2 did not have horrid sales. With others date, it sold near 600k (conservative estimate based on online accounts). 600k is pretty good for a game of that type and has generated a healthy profit for EA for sure.