S.T.A.G.E. on 14 January 2015
| Mystro-Sama said: Never going to happen. GoW generate sales many times more than that of SO and it still took them years to buy the IP. |
Microsoft would not have needed to buy the IP for Gears if Epic would've continued to make the title for them. They are dependent upon third party exclusive support and they'll pay top dollar for it as you've seen. Once again, as you saw....since Epic didn't want to continue with Gears they bought the whole franchise and some key people from the team, plus the hiring laid off members of Sony Santa Monica and Irrational Games to work on Gears.
BTW if you read what I wrote, this is about potential, not about being a runaway hit. I used Uncharted as an example because when it first came out it was a sleeper. It wasnt until Uncharted 2 that the sales for one started to get a boost.
