Burek said:
a) This really isn't a kind of game to attract wider audience. Mainly to attract new users. I can see this game do decently well among existing XOne owners, but, other than some sort of bundle/price drop incentive, don't see many people deciding to buy XOne based on Sunset Overdrive. b) game comes out "Fall". October or early November, I guess. I'm just afraid it will get swallowed up by an onslaught of multiplatform titles. It will be a very slow release summer, followed by September's Destiny that seems to have chased away all other games into Q4. Then all of a sudden we get: Dragon Age, Mordor, Alien, Driveclub, The Crew, Project CARS [one of those needs to be delayed, for sure], Batman, Assassin's Creed, CoD, FIFA, NBA 2K.... 10 huge or potentially huge sellers. S.O. just might not stand a chance, a new, quirky IP...
Had the game come out in June or August it would probably do much better. Or in February 2015... Or, of course, this franchise might just be a new hit to follow the footsteps of Saints Row, and prove me wrong... |
It may be september, and its weird you mention a PS4 exclusive and not the Xbox One's. Heavily advertised fall exclusives haven't had that problem of being drowned by multiplats last gen. And if Xbox One owners got Ryse to close to 1 million then I'm sure from just the genre that Sunset Overdrive can top it being a 1st year AAA true exclusive. But I see where you're coming from.
