Sony On Kill Streak May Be Unloading All Guns At This Years E3

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Munkeh111 said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Severance said:

MDMAniac said:

Boring line-up, to be honest. It is all sequels, and what's worse, mostly sequels to games which had somewhat disappointing sales. They can't kill anyone with such lineup, because with exception of GT5 none of this will be a huge system seller. Even Halo Reach has more chance to grab new ppl to xbox install base than those titles, seriously.

Do you play sales or do you play games?

i play games.

I play sales actually, cause when a game sells well I can play it's sequel, and also play other games made by said developer cause they were able to stay in business lol

I have some concern about sales, but inFamous does not have spectacular sales, but it has enough sales to justify a sequel, and it will justify another one. More importantly, it is awesome

Well if EA set a good benchmark then 1.1 million across 2 versions breaks even, inFamous crossed that line, and didn't have the extra 360 development costs, add ot that they can reuse many assets in inFamous 2 while if they go on to make something like Sly 4 it would mean they'd have to make totally new game assets, so inFamous 2 is the better financial situation since the costs would likely be lower than the first and might sell a million again.

Though I hated the first I hope the second game can actually take a lesson from other super hero games and make me feel like I actually have power

But honestly most games don't even get inFamous level sales even across 2 platforms and then their developers are SOL, but it also helps that a first party is publishing the title since they don't have to pay for the license then so it cuts out the middle man as well, the benchmark for 1st party is actually lower than that for everyone else so they have the potential to make the most money or at least break even at a lower sales point.

And that was my point, I play sales when I want another game in the series or want a company to stay in business, first parties aren't going anywhere soon, even if any one of them dropped out of the console race they could still compete with software, though that would put them in the same place as every other 3rd party developer/publisher for next gen, which means software sales mean everything lol