Munkeh111 said:
shio said:
selnor said:
haxxiy said:
I don't think so... I mean, why do another RTS when a new FPS Halo could sell +5m? |
Because believe it or not. It sold very well. And it would be a different studio to the one creating the FPS games. So they would be able to do both, nd make more money. Halo Wars has sold 1.32 million so far. Thats excellent by PC RTS sales as well.
And there was quite a few Ensemble employees kept on at M$ to.
I think we will see a Halo Wars 2.
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1.32 millions is great sales for PC standard but not console standard - Halo Wars had a huge budget and a huge advertisement push, I doubt it even made a profit yet. PC RTS games like Empire Total War and Dawn of War had nowhere near the amount of advertisement that Halo Wars did.
With Ensemble gone, I doubt we'll ever see Halo Wars 2.
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1.32m is decent. Uncharted cost $20m to make, and given that Ensemble did not have to make much art for this game, I am sure they would have saved money there. Just assuming that it gets to 1.5m, it will probably have made around $37.5m at $25 per game, would it really have cost twice as much as Uncharted? I am sure it made some profit, but nothing compared to a Halo FPS
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Indeed, Halo Wars probably didn't cost as much as Uncharted to make, especially considering it's an RTS, since Strategy games in general are cheaper to develop.
It's possible that Halo Wars is already making a profit, but what keeps me in the doubt is that Microsoft made a big advertisement push on the game that leads me to believe they wasted millions of dollars in promoting the game.
