Killer Instinct and Project Spark... will we view digital games differently?

[theprof00]

sales2099 said:

theprof00 said:

NiKKoM said:

theprof00 said:
The question on project spark is how are we supposed to measure its success?

Surely they'll announce numbers when it hits certain Milestones.. Like we would have really bought Minecraft if we didnt knew it was such a succes.. The sound of sale will lead to curiosity of why it sold so much > even more sales

It's free to play.

On top of which, it's also available on pc.

So is Minecraft, didn't stop the 360 version being a massive success. But there are PR ways to announce success of f2p

You should really highlight which portion you're talking about, otherwise you're being misleading.

What I mean is that if it's free to play, and it's on pc, MS could easily say something like "Spark massive success; downloaded 5m times", and we'd have no idea what platform it was on, actual install number, or have any real basis to judge usage numbers off of.

Not to mention that aside from the similarity to minecraft, MC had a gigantic pc following way before it hit consoles.