So How Big is Rage Gonna be?

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Slimebeast said:

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Slimebeast said:

Over 5 million on consoles.

- It's made by id
- Bethesda is a phenomenal publisher
- It will have groundbreaking graphics
- With its vehicles it's much more varied than other shooters
- It will have a great multiplayer
- It will get over 90% Meta

10 million is impossible though because Battlefield 3 is the game that's going to hit 10 million and challenge CoD this season, there's no room for a second challenger right now.

You think the 3rd Battlefield outing can almost double the sales of the 2nd game? I guess 2 doubled 1. But going from 2.5 million up to 5 million is easuer than going from 5 million to 10 million.

Absolutely.

Remember how Call of Duty went from a 4-5 million (CoD1&2) franchise to a 14 million franchise (MW) in just one season.

The popularity of shooters on consoles exploded with MW (and obviously Halo made the groundwork bla bla, but this is not a history lesson). Respect and hype for Battlefield 3 is insane.

The only thing that will reduce BF3 sales from the 15 million level is that a few million prefer the superior PC version.

Well, yes, but CoD didn't have any direct competition there was no contemporary FPS around to split the market, and MW seemed to have hit a huge untapped market. Before MW FPS was either world war 2 related, or sci-fi/futuristic. I don't see the pretenders (MoH reboot / Battlefield) getting that huge untapped market boost that MW enjoyed. I guess we'll see. Certainly looks like BF3 should expand on BF:BC2 given how much 2 expanded on 1, and that it's generally a highly regarded series by those who play a lot of FPS.