What Sales does The Order Need to Earn a Sequel?..or Everyone has at Least One The Order Thread in them.

[the_real_dsister44]

RolStoppable said:

the_real_dsister44 said:
Nah, gotta say. This looks like one of those games that kills the studio. Saw it a couple times last gen with lackluster PS3 games. RIP Ready at Dawn

Yeah, that's a real possibility that I mentioned in another thread without expanding on it.

With those kinds of production values, 1m in sales simply doesn't cut it. Even if all those copies were sold at full price, that's probably not even going to be a break-even result. For a sequel to get greenlit, 2m minimum is absolutely required, with the majority of those copies sold at full price. If The Order 1886 struggles in retail, Sony won't have much of a reason to give Ready at Dawn another project; and other publishers won't knock on the door of a developer that just finished a commercial failure.

Yep, the dangers of being porters. No original IP to fall back on when time gets tough.