Augen on 07 March 2014
| bananaking21 said: ubisoft have been making this game for years, 6 if i remember correctly. its got a huge scale and aims to become a franchise. if the sales are disappointing, they didnt just lose lots of money from the game alone, but they lost the potential to make more money from the franchise it was supposed to be. so yeah, this could hurt Ubisofts future plans as much as it hurt them financially. |
If that is true about developing a franchise I would be curious if any sequel plans are going forward or tentatively being put on hold given how much interest has wained in past several months.
I am not sure what the threshold for proiftability is for Watch Dogs, my guess would be 4-5 million across platforms. That said, it could see a sequel if they figure heavy lifting is done and can use assets to make a Watch Dogs 2 that only needs 1-2 million sales to recoup losses from the first. Hard to say.
I don't expect the game to flop, but I do expect it to fall short of what ever Ubisoft's expectations were for it a year ago.
