Is Yooka Laylee Proving Publishers Should Have Faith in 3D Platformers?

[Samus Aran]

nuckles87 said:

I think it's proving that not every game needs to be a multibillion dollar triple-A franchise juggernaut with grade-A production values to attract consumers. I think it also proves that we really don't need publishers for this kind of game now and should probably stop asking them for them.

The main issue here has never really been "can these games make money", it's been "can they make more money than these other, big budget games"? And the answer is no, except when that big budget game flops horribly and the company loses millions.

Games like Halo, Call of Duty, and Uncharted would scoff at Yooka-Laylee's paltry $1 million in 24 hours.

And Mario laughs at Halo and Uncharted.

I love it how people try to spin this KS project as underwhelming.

How much would people pay for spiritual successors of those games? Not much. ;)