What will be the bombs of the year?

[Burek]

LudicrousSpeed said:

DerNebel said:

It actually would, since the devs have since the beginning been trying to sell this as the next big thing in competitive multiplayer. They have been trying to create that interest but it just hasn't worked it seems.

They have been talking it up as the next big thing in MP. Of course, that has literally nothing to do with anything high sales can accomplish.

If anything, the delay into this time of year should show you the publisher is not expecting it to light up sales charts. So Bloodborne will all the hype and expectations can sell as little as 1.5 million and still not be a bomb, what does Evolve have to sell? Just curious where the different standards lie.

Standards lie in different development costs. Japanese games are usually cheaper to make. Also Bloodborne is an exclusive, Evolve is on three platforms.

I suspect Evolve to be a much more expensive game to make, and a much more difficult game to market. I doubt MS will invest much in its adverising, and I doubt that they will make huge amount of bundles (actually, shouldn't we know of bundles already, 20 days to launch?).

Also, Evolve requires online subscription to function, so you already lost half the install base on both consoles as potential buyers.

This is my reasoning why Evolve will bomb, and Bloodborne will not.