EA treating Titanfall like a smaller product due to PC/Xbox exclusivity

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ganoncrotch said:

mornelithe said:

ganoncrotch said:
very strange that anyone involved in the project would say something like this about it. "keep expectations in check" what is that meant to mean?

The only thing I can think of is, they're not encouraged by the pre-orders, and want to get out ahead of it in case they're lower than what the 'industry' considers a successful launch.  Hard telling though, 360, One and PC is hardly a tiny user base, so it's rather odd to be making this statement in my opinion.

Naw it has been said a few times here now, they're right to say it just to keep expectations in line with the first game of a possible series, like just them saying that Titanfall doesn't have an install base ready to buy it as a sequel/mappack so ofc it's not going to sell as well as games with a long standing fanbase.

While that makes sense, it doesn't really keep the hype train rolling, which Titanfall has had a decent go of it thus far.  Granted, the Titanfall hype had hit a lull of late, but that's no reason to pop the balloon either.  If EA doesn't consider it a big project, why should anyone else care?