DigitalDevilSummoner said:
No, it isn't huge but "Remedy Entertainment" the creators of the original Max Payne and The Fall of Max Payne are (or were). My take is that, just like "Rare", Remedy is another studio that MS dragged down to the gutter. I am eagerly awaiting for a sequel on the PC. |
I don't normally say this, but this post was a straight up epic fail. Heavy on emotion, and really light on facts. Rare isn't in the gutter. You might not like their new focus, but the Kinect Sports series has sold over seven million copies. The Viva Pinata series has sold two million copies. Nutz and Bolts sold over seven hundred thousand copies, and the same with Perfect Dark Zero. You basically have to go back to 2005 to find a Rare game that did poorly, and that was Kameo. Even the two DS titles they put out did pretty well for portable games. One of those sold over a million copies.
Microsoft didn't drag this developer anywhere they didn't want to go. Not only doesn't Microsoft own them, but they probably sold a couple million units of the game/expansions on their console, and Microsoft obviously didn't prevent them from porting it to the PC. Something try as I might I wouldn't expect either Sony or Nintendo to allow to happen if they had the publishing rights. Speaking of glass houses and all if you want to talk about manufacturers running third party developers into the gutter. I seem to recall two studios that made PS3 exclusive games that went bankrupt shortly after releasing their games. You know something tells me that wasn't coincidence.
Chances are you will be eagerly awaiting that sequel for a while if Microsoft picked up the publishing rights again. They don't seem to block ports, but if they do pick up the tab they seem to expect some timed exclusivity. So you will probably end up having to wait a year or two. A real kind of shame too, because I think the sequel will probably outshine the original in a lot of ways. I liked the original, but it was rough in a lot of places. I hope the expansions, and where they went with American Nightmare means they are going for more exposition, and character development.
