What's the track record for franchises that have been handed off by their creator to a whole different studio? A series that is rather on a critical decline to boot.
Seems to me like the new studio never quite captures the magic of a franchises golden era. So for Gears to win the meta race Naughty Dog needs to really screw up with Uncharted 4. If Naughty Dog aces Uncharted 4 then there is no pathway for Gears 4 to meta higher than UC4.
Sales-wise, PS4 simply has too big of an install base for Gears 4 to have any chance to sell more, assuming both games get good metascores. If UC4 bombs into the 60s for metacritic and Gears 4 sits proudly in the 80s then maybe it will sell better.
I don't see uncharted getting much below 90 on metacritic from what I've seen of the game so far. So my money is on UC 4 taking both the sales and metasscore prize.
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