halil23 said:
starcraft said:
I know very little about Epic's financials, however I do know that they are currently only known for two gaming franchises, Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3. The former recently made Epic a LOT of money both directly in terms of sales, and indirectly in terms of the number of developers that became licencees to their Unreal Engine 3 after seeing Gears of War. The latter, Unreal Tournament 3, just cost Epic what is probably a considerable amount of money when it flopped horribly on the PS3 and PC. Though some of this may be recouperated through a 360 version, it is still unlikely to be profitable. In my opinion, this is the time for Microsoft to push for Gears of War exclusivity beyond Gears of War 2 (my understanding is that they only have publishing rights for versions 1 & 2). Epic have only two significant properties, one of which has been immensly successful and was developed with large Microsoft input, the other of which may just be pronounced dead after it's abysmal sales. This is the perfect time for Microsoft to step in and offer Epic a little money (to pad their half-yearly bottom-line out after UT3's failure) in return for a couple more exclusive Gears of War games, or perhaps another exclusive IP. Thoughts? |
Hey xbox fanboy! Why don't you leave VG chartz alone and post this crap on xboxfanboy.com. Why? Because what you post is BS! and the reason Gears of War sales were good on xbox is because Microsoft put a lot of money on advertising this game, whereas Unreal Tournament 3 is no where big as Gears of War advertising, thus the sales weren't good (NOT "flopped horribly"). So please stop being a fanboy with BS post and state FACTS, assuming you do a bit of research. Oh yeah! have a nice day freakin fanboy!
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You're using circular reasoning and you're foolish. "Games sales suck when they have small ad budget. UT3 had a small ad budget, therefore UT3 sales sucked."
How did you reach the conclusion that UT3 didn't do well ONLY because it didn't have Gears ad budget? Did you factor in that maybe UT3 sucks? UT is the dead horse and Epic keeps kicking it.
