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BenVTrigger on 05 March 2011
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mantlepiecek said:
BenVTrigger said:

I really do think people are looking at this situation the wrong way to be honest.  Lots of users in here are overlooking the fact of how much more buzz this game would have generated being a console exclusive on the 360.  It would have Epics name written on it who 360 fans already support and love with Shadow Complex and Gears of War.  It's a FPS which does massive numbers on the console.  And it would have generated FAR more hype due to the competition it would have had being a direct exclusive competitor with Killzone.

Exclusives really get the fanbase excited and Epic is obviously one of 360 fans favorite developers.  In this case there isn't a question in my mind being an exclusive the game would have at the very least done a quite larger first week.  And rarely do I say that but in this case I'm sure of it.  In fact I think it would have quite easily done 500k on the 360 first week at least.  There is no large scale 360 exclusive in the 1st half of the year and that would have given it even more momentum. 

No way it could have done much better if it was a console exclusive. If it was a 360 exclusive it might have done better on the 360 but the overall would be the same.


I just don't agree with you.  At all.  MS has the best marketing team in all of gaming and if they had put their full force of advertising into this, putting emphasis on how "The best shooters are on 360" tagline or something savy like that, and put it into direct competition with Killzone why wouldn't it have done MUCH bigger numbers.  I'm sure of it on this one. 

You don't think all those core gamers on the 360 who have had zero exclusive for the first six months of the year wouldn't have gotten FAR more excited at having one of their favorite developers developing an exclusive and delivering it at a dry time for 360 owners?  Trust me it would have done better, at the very least initially, as an exclusive.  I have yet to see a compelling argument that counters this, every aspect just lines up and points to it being a big success as an exclusive.  And as I've said countless times rarely do I say that, I'm a big supporter of multi-plat development.