| CGI-Quality said: Besides, for you to call Sunset a failure (or make claims about inFAMOUS's sales, for that matter), you'd have to tell me the expectations. Without that, you're speaking from personal feelings and nothing else. Can we conclude that people expected more from Sunset? Sure. But, so what? We don't know what it needed to sell and we are no where near its lifetime total. |
Whose expectations, mine or Microsofts?
I always expected the game to fail, as it seemed awful from my personal perspective, and I hoped that most people would share my feelings.
I expected it to fail from the day the release date was announced, which I stated here on several occasions. It was originally a date when it would have had to face Battlefield Hardline and AC: Unity. But then those game got postponed, and SO had the next-gen stage all for themselves for an entire week. I revised my expectations from bomb to just failure then.
To be the only new release (outside a very niche, indie game Lords of the Fallen), and to sell so poorly should definitely fall below Microsoft's expectations. They put it in a lucrative slot, bet the game to sell systems (which it also failed to do).
This level of sales would be expected from an unpromising game given a late January or an early July slot, but a "prime-time" game should definitely be expected to sell much more than this...
