"High Voltage Software knew this from the very begining. Even though they have experience in game developmen uder a tight budget and time frame on licenced titles. They knew they lack the expertise in original, propietary IPs and let alone in the FPS genre to say that The Conduit will become a classic. The company clearly considered the losses and made their expectations accordingly to determine a minimum level from which the game's performance in the market can be considered "good" or a total failure.
One of the reasons that many publishers rejected the idea of publishing the game was because they don't wasn to lose money on Wii games. these pucblishers have loss expectations on PS3 and/or XBox360 projects because they can rely on Wii quick cash-in shovelware games to recover some of that loss. SEGA understood these expectations and became the publisher."
Talk about presumptive. And big cash whore developers like Ubisoft and Activision show that is not a true notion.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
