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BenVTrigger on 05 March 2011
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mantlepiecek said:
BenVTrigger said:

Except that, Epic games owns People Can Fly 100% so yes it is an Epic game and that Cliffy B himself was the lead development advisor on the game and played and worked on it 3 days a week with them, it even says it in the credits of the game.

I see.

So you are saying if MS published this game, and advertised the sh*t out of it, it would have rivaled Killzone 3 or at least done as much as 500K.

I disagree. They don't need to have published by MS to do 500K. All they needed to do was release it at a different time.

imo April would have been the best time since there are no big FPS's releasing that month that I know of.

MS can only publish so many IPs made by 3rd party. Its not like everything MS publishes is a hit, and the developers who make it hardly matter if the game is not interesting.

Most of the people who play gears of war don't care about epic games, or cliffyB. I know this because I was one of them.

Bulletstorm only did well on the 360 because of gears beta, otherwise it would have bombed there as well. It bombed on the PC, it bombed on the PS3, it almost bombed on the 360.

Surely having the beta for one of the exclusives should be enough, right?

Not really, the Gears Beta was an added  bonus and certainly made SOME people buy it but not many went out and spent $60 just for a Beta.  That's rediculous that's as much as the actual game Gears of War 3 will be.  This is the kind of game that appeals to 360's demographic more than the other game systems, is developed by a team that has seen huge success on 360 and has a huge fanbase and has a fantastic relationship with hardware manufactureer themselves in Microsoft.  Bulletstorm would have seen virtually ZERO competition in exclusive 360 game space for the first 6 months of the year so it would have had a Massive marketing budget from MS to use to compete with a flagship shooter for the PS3 in Killzone.  And would have seen far more hype being a 360 exclusive in discussions and such.  Think about how many more threads and coverage there would have been for Bulletstorm had it been exclusive, 360 fans would want to discuss it more as a reason for owning a 360 and would have put it in comparisons with Killzone.

I just truely believe this is one of those RARE circumstances where exclusive would have been better than multiplat.  All the signs just add up.