Sunset Overdrive and Forza Horizon 2 were released at Bad times

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bananaking21 said:
if you want to know the truth i honestly dont know why SO isnt selling great. i think it looks like a great and fun game, if i would have assumed a game like it would sell a lot. sometimes good games just dont sell, and that seems to sadly apply to SO

as far as forza, well, i think the racing genre in general is declining, specially in the US. so it was expected for it to not perform great since xbox one is strongest in the USA then UK, with it performing badly in the rest of EU were sales of racing games are good.

There are many good games that don't sell great. Of course what's different about SO is that it was a well promoted exclusive, with it's own very special white console bundle. So it wasn't quietly released and only sold to people who actively monitor game releases and look for the quiet achievers.

Fact is this game was the wrong genre and style for the core Xbox fanbase, which are pretty much the only people buying Xb one right now. I don't know if MS was hoping SO would be the Gears of War of the 8th generation, but there was no way SO had a hope of having that sort of effect. The Gears of the 8th gen for Xbox will be a TPS or FPS that is totally exclusive to Xb one.

FH2 is a spin off of Xbox's premier racing franchise. FH1 sold modestly and FH2 selling relatively low numbers is completely unsurprising. And it really wouldn't have mattered when FH2 launched it would have seen this level of sales.