| Burek said: 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. |
Evolve has an offline mode. You don't have to play online. Even if you eliminated half the potential buyers, that's also half as many people the publisher would be expecting to buy the game. MS marketing would also mean less copies have to sell for the publisher to recoup their investment.
