BasilZero said:
Dallinor said:
You might consider Wipeout to be a huge franchise in name, but the reality is it's probably a successful small tier title in the playstation portfolio, with it's glory days in the past. According to the data on this site the franchise didn't break a million with a single release.
Zipper was not closed for one bad game, far from it. They were closed for producing nothing critically or financially sucessful over a 6 year period. They are SCEWS least successful developer this generation. Their two biggest projects combined have sold less than 2 million copies, despite over 100 staff working at Zipper. An online-only Socom game from Slant Six Games, a much smaller less experienced developer, has sold more copies than Zippers main entry sequel in the series; Socom 4. That was the writing on the wall. They were incompetent and the reality is they have probably been nothing but a money sink for Sony this entire generation.
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I wouldnt really look at the data on this site...most of it is way off like the God of War sales and the PSVita sales.
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Either way, the series went from 3 releases on the PS1, to 2 releases on the PS2 then only one release on the PS3 and it was initially only as a PSN title. I think the franchise may have been on the decline.
