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Dallinor on 19 April 2017
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LudicrousSpeed said:
NATO said:

It's also an exclusive, new IP, with that same console having thousand of other games to play, a. Whole host of major releases out around the same time too, versus Botw, which is a well loved and extensive franchise with a pre established fan base , multi platform and for the one platform still relevant pretty much the only retail game worth buying, and a launch and at that, making it the go-to game for people buying the new console,so that argument doesn't work here.

Of course it does. The Wii U is a dead platform. The Switch is sold out virtually everywhere. BOTW has a very limited amount of people it can sell to.

And yeah, Horizon is a new IP. But a heavily marketed, very safe IP, by a very popular Sony developer. It's not as if it was Nier or something. Not that Nier is a new IP.

Very safe?

This has been the opposite of safe for a developer like GG.  A company whose entire fundamentals and core are based in a single franchise in a different genre for the past 13 years tackling a new IP, in a new setting, new genre, new engine, with new staff. 

Very popular?

They've never really been that popular. They've once in 17 years managed to produce a game that sold 3 million copies. They were in 9th position in terms of sales on the PS3 between first and second party and 7th just including first party. This is truly their breakout game and puts them in the big leagues.

I don't get the Nier comparison.