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Raven722 on 31 January 2014
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mibuokami said:
Raven722 said:
mibuokami said:
the-pi-guy said:
jlmurph2 said:
Did anyone really expect 2014?

I see no reason why not!  

They're not gonna release 2 Third Person game within the same 3 month period during the first Holiday, that would be very counter productive. As soon as the Order 1886 got pushed to later in the year, it was a given that Uncharted would be a 2015 game.


A third person view is the only thing Uncharted seems to have in common with The Order. I really don't think it's a big deal to release a Gears of War-esque third-person shooter within three months of a Tomb Raider-esque third-person action platformer. That would be like worrying that Skyrim was going to take sales away from Battlefield 3.

Gears of War and Tomb Raider do not come from the same publisher. No publisher will try to push out 2 games that so closely resembling each other from a cursory prespective unless they have no faith in one of the game and just want to to push it out.

Irrespective of difference, both are Third Person Action Adventure, with an emphasis on 'filmic' expirience with a big part of the gameplay being shooting at stuff, they will definitely eat into each other's sale.

If The Order launched in August or so and Uncharted launched in November that's not going to cause a sales issue. The bulk of The Orders sales would have likely already happened by the time Uncharted launched and at a far enough space apart where people could easily afford both. Even with that, I still don't think that their moderate similarities would be cause for concern considering that one seems far more angled at intense shooting action while the other is much more platform-based with some puzzle solving and much less focus on gunplay. If I were making the call I would pull the trigger and have them both release within a few months of each other. Gears of War and Tomb Raider don't play anything like each other and most people will see that right off the bat. They're not going to go, "Nope. The camera is third person just like that other game plus it has heavy cinematic elements too. They play a lot differently but it's the same thing".